Inane Murtaza

"I have a dream...", the first time I ever heard this speech by Martin Luther King Jr, the speech reverberated through me for a very long time. The lives of the people affected by the evils of Slavery can never be compensated and this was also depicted brilliantly in one of my favourite classics till date, Uncle Tom's Cabin. So, recently when I picked up this book, me and 2 of my friends decided to buddy read this one. Though it took me quite a bit of time to finish the book, but it felt like an achievement as it was my first book for 2018. Blurb: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned and, though they manage to find a statio...

Let's get straight to the point. According to Wikipedia, The term demigod or demi-god can refer to a minor deity, a mortal or immortal who is the offspring of a god and a human being, or a figure who has attained divine status after death. To be honest, I still have no idea how is the title related to the book in any way. Though I do should commend on the beautiful cover of the book which takes us back to the era of 80s and 90s. Blurb: A bold debut novel reminiscent of Emma Cline's The Girls; a story of love, lust and the spaces in between, from a 'captivating' (New York Times) new voice in fiction It is 1950, and Willa's mother has a new beau. The arrival of his blue-eyed, sun-kissed sons at Willa's summer home signals the end of her safe childhood. As her entrancing older sister Joan pairs off with Kenneth, nine-year-old Willa is drawn to his strange and solitary younger brother, Patrick. Left to their own devices, Willa is swept up in Patrick's wicked...