The company daughters by Samantha Rajaram is an enjoyable historical novel that portrays a story about friendship and surviving life disadvantages in a very frightening scene.

The author has brought to life two female figures from the early 1600s and their journey to another country, another world and a fate that is nothing at all the way they expected it would be. Just like an arranged marriage novel, it treats them like possession or even slaves, and their spouses couldn’t be more different from each other. It engages us in such a peculiar cultural upbringing and we can easily read that what in some cultures dignity, respect and approaching each other like equals are such a wrangling perception and the discrepancies are running from many ages back.

It’s sensual, and it shows how the characters have grown to discover what life has to offer and their own identities along with their friendship and friends that crossover their path. The power is displayed in many forms and it shows how some people will profit from it to a maximum and how others will yet be compassionate of the less fortunate.

It’s a debut novel, but it doesn’t feel like it as it’s well researched and the storyline just flows uninterrupted.

Very grateful for my review copy to the publisher through NetGalley