Prelude to a Riot

Aditya’s Soliqoquy

“I have made a decision, I will read a book everyday”

Saying that I started reading the book which was in my reading list from the longest time. I clearly remember that this book was gifted by my girlfriend. But I am not really sure if I should be calling it a present or not, cause the situation was the JCB list just came out and the book scored a place in the list. So I asked her to get me this book cause as usual I was broke.

Having said that I will start reading a book. I started with “Prelude to a Riot”. The story revolves around a few characters but what makes it different is that there isn’t a story. The author played with the backstory of the characters to get move the story forward. Every character has their own soliqoquy where he/she/they talks about what made them the person they are right now and what they think about about the current scenario and incident.

The characters involved were two estate owners and their families. Their relations with each others and workers has been written beautifully by Annie. The relations are depicted like the way we see in our daily lives. All the characters felt like I have known them for years and I am just reading about their lives now.

Calling the book an anthology will be wrong because there is no other author other than Annie, but other stories have woven so perfectly that one cannot set them apart.

My favorite story was between Mariam and Kadir. The callback with the same sequence gave me goosebumps. Garuda was my favorite character.

Started at 12 AM, the book got completed by 4:30 AM and I couldn’t sleep till 7 because of the emotions I felt after reading the book.

So here I am writing a review of the book ( where I think I am no one to write about such beauty) at 3:30 PM.