The Forgotten Palace : Review

 About the Book

SOMETIMES TO MOVE FORWARD YOU FIRST HAVE TO GO BACK…

Priyadarshini Mathur, a 23 year old management student, is a shy and timid girl who’s looking forward to her senior year in ACIM – a top MBA college. But Priya has a secret. Only her best friend knows that when she lost her grandmother on her eighteenth birthday, something weird had happened to her. Priya does not remember anything of six month phase right after her granny’s death, a period when she had lost contact with everyone. She also gets frequent nosebleeds and vague flashbacks of the time when she was missing.

Handsome and ambitious, Arnav Rathore is an entrepreneur and the winner of ‘Alum of the year’ award from ACIM. Arnav is surprised when he discovers that Priya is the girl his mother has chosen for him as his life partner. Having suffered heartbreak previously, a simple life with Priya is all he is looking for when he marries her.

TO THE PLACE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN…

Sheesh Mahal- The royal mansion has stood witness to centuries of life and death of the Rajvanshi kings and the fierce battles they have fought. However, unbeknownst to most, Sheesh Mahal is riddled with a terrifying crime. In the modern times, when the youngest of the Rajvanshis – Arnav Rathore is on a quest to renovate Sheesh Mahal into a five star resort, a devastating secret threatens to spill out and change his life forever.

A lonely Priya, now Arnav’s wife, starts spending most of her time in the grand library of Sheesh Mahal, learning about the rich history of her husband’s royal lineage. Her restlessness hits home when she comes across an unfinished portrait of one of Arnav’s infamous ancestors – Satya Narayan. As Arnav becomes increasingly consumed with work, Priya struggles with long suppressed memories that start coming to the fore.

Hurled back in time through unexplained forces, Priya finds herself driven to bringing justice to the prince who had been wronged and change the fate of the Rajvanshis while her own future hangs in the balance.

My Thoughts 

So I was in the mood for a little time travel story so I stumbled on this one on my kindle. I'm fond of time travel stories ever since I read The Time Traveler's Wife. 

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is not." ~ Henry van Dyke

The Forgotten Palace and The Betrayed Prince was a well written story that I couldn't stop reading. It keeps getting better the more you read. What an exciting experience of time travel and the power of the love that developed with the characters. 

The story revolves around Priya and her two romances, Arnav and Satya. She's married to Arnav in the 21st century. But Priya finds herself being whisked back into time, five hundred years in the past and meets Satya. Where does she actually belong? I hate spoiling so find out yourself :) 

The time travel was very believable as it happened. This was my first book by this author and I loved it! I will be getting more of her books to read and I highly recommend this book.

I would also mention that, while I read this book, there were sections I wanted to enjoy again, word for word.

Overall, it’s a great story and plot. I sincerely hope that the author writes another book with time travel as it's plot. I was hooked on every single word the author has written and the intensity only increases as the plot thickens and the twists and turns come to face our heroes.

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