DNF. I finally decided to just officially make this a DNF. I got about 1/3 of the way into this book, maybe more and it felt so draining. The story didn’t seem to be going anywhere, it moved extremely slow, and the writing style left a lot to be desired. This makes me sad because I was really looking forward to this book when it came out and I was so excited to read it, but I just can’t force myself to finish it for the sake of finishing it.

I was honestly trying to avoid DNF this book, especially because it’s an ARC, but honestly I got about 20% into it and just kept getting so confused by the entire thing. It has a great premise, but trying I keep the different versions of the MC straight was a bit much for me and I didn’t understand where the story was going. I’m sorry to say that this book just wasn’t for me.

DNF. This just wasn’t for me. No rating because I don’t think it’s fair to give this one a 1 star rating when honestly I just wasn’t a fan of the writing style, which is why I stopped reading.

I'm not going to rate this because I'm DNF at 11%. I just couldn't get into it. It may have been because I had the audiobook, but the beginning was very mundane for me. I'm still going to check out some of the author's other work though.

I had a very hard time getting into this so I'm DNFing. I made it about 30 percent in. I know this is a very popular series, so maybe I'll try again, but for right now, I'm not very interested.

DNF @ 63%. I really wanted to finish this book, honest I did. I couldn't bring myself to though. I understand that this was supposed to give a voice to women, specifically girls and women from India, who face abuse and misogyny and shed light on these topics while also telling the story of two girls and their friendship, but honestly it's too hard for me to finish. I never expected the read to be easy and I certainly didn't expect things to magically get better for Savitha or Poornima, but this was still a bit much. I ultimately had to stop during Savitha's portion of the story because a particular incident [spoilers start here] after Savita is human trafficked from India to America where a man forces her to use her amputated arm on him for sexual pleasure. If that incident itself wasn't horrifying enough, there's actually a description of what she does to him, how she feels during it, and his pleasure from it. [spoilers end here]. I'll admit that my reaction may have a lot to do with the fact that I was listening to the audiobook during this graphic scene and maybe it would've been different if I were visually reading it instead of doing an auditory reading, but either way, that was the last straw for me.

I understand what Shobha Roa wanted to do with this novel and I applaud her for taking on such a taboo topic that needs to be discussed more, but for my own personal state of mind and person...I can't continue this book. I will say that the prose was great and you could really feel the love that Savita and Poornima have for one another. I was honestly rooting for them both and the narrator gave great emotion to Shobha's words.

DNF at 15% in the audiobook. I just can't do this ya'll. I've wanted to read this for so long, especially because I love the movie, but this is just a no for me. There's a crazy amount of detail put into everything little thing. For instance there's a whole chapter of what Sidda thought of one of the YaYa's hair when she was growing up and how well she used to know her mother's body. It's just moving so slow and most of this stuff I'm not even interested in. If I was reading a physical version of this book I'd probably be skimming at this point. I just....I don't think I can get through this so I'll stick to the movie. Not going to rate it because it's not bad it's just not my cup of tea.

I am not in the mood to continuously read about how attractive Tallulah is because she lost wait and how this is her “revenge body” and revenge made her choose apples over cake. No thanks.

Dnf at 50%

DNF @ 50% because I just could not get into this and I couldn't take it any longer. Sorry not sorry.