This book is set in India in the late 1850s before and during the Indian rebellion against the British. The two main characters, Prince Salim and English woman Rachel meet through a joint love of music and eventually fall in love in the midst of their warring people.

To start off with I will say that I enjoyed the audio narration of this. The narrator was of Indian descent and obviously knew how to pronounce all the places and names correctly which made for an enjoyable read. Her English accents were also excellent.

However the story fell really flat for me. My library app actually made a mistake and I thought I was going to be listening to the authors other book. So I was waiting for that story to start happening and was confused until I realised the mistake. While Salim and Rachel were cute, there was so much back and forth it got irritating. It also took so long for anything to properly happen between them.

This book did serve to make me very angry though at the way the Brits treated the Indian native. My blood was boiling for so much of the rebellion scenes. While I did learn a lot more about how Indian people had to leave under British rule at the time (and I do think it hit close to home due to my own county's relationship with Britain), I did find some of the names and what was happening within the rebellion confusing. The timeline for me was a bit messy, I could never figure out how much time had actually passed.

There were a few moments where Rachel was just a massive drip and irritated me immensely. When she got annoyed at Salim for being a part of the rebellion, I almost ripped out my earphones. How dare she 'hate him' for wanted to take his country back and make his people safe. I would have left her then and there. At points she talked about some of the English had to live during the time but I had absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for them with how some other characters were treated during the course of the book.

So overall, I wasn't mad about this book and I'm just glad it's over.