Her patience and understanding of Rea and the way she tackles Rea’s tantrums were great! She practically had more patience with Rea than anyone else, myself included. I loved Rea’s friends though! My absolute favourite character here was Leela, Rea’s friend from Darjeeling who gets roped into this mission. I don’t feel strongly about Rea’s family yet since a good bit of the book is of Rea and her friends on their quest, but I find them complex and layered from their past experiences, so I’m hoping there will be more direct interactions with them in the next book. However, she really grows through her friendships and experiences, becoming more loving, selfless and powerful in a way that is very satisfying to me as the reader. Her uneasy family dynamics explains a lot of it, but I found it a bit frustrating at times. Rea and the Blood of the Nectar by Doshi Payal from. REA AND THE BLOOD OF THE NECTAR, the first book in the. Having lived in the UK and US, she noticed a lack of Indian protagonists in global children’s fiction and one day wrote the opening paragraph to what would become her first children’s novel. She was initially what I would call a brat she has this habit of blaming others for everything that goes wrong, and she had this annoying lack of trust in almost anyone. Payal Doshi has a Masters in Creative Writing (Fiction) from The New School, New York. Initially, I found it a teensy bit hard to actually like Rea and by the end of the book, I think I understood her a lot better and I sort of wanted her to work on herself like she did throughout this book.
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