Blood song by Juggi Bhasin

"Blood song" by Juggi Bhasin. This book is published by Penguin Metro Reads in 2014 and has 440 pages. This third novel of Suvir Suri series.

Simran is a Sikh girl living in London with her ultra conservative family. Her brother commits suicide. She is deceived in love and brutally gang raped in London. Her family packs her away to Punjab. Here she first meets an enigmatic middle aged woman and then eventually meets Suvir.

Will Simran accept the rape as her destiny? Will Khalistan movement resurrect? What are the designs of corrupt chief minister? What has Suvir got to do with all of it? Will Simran avenge her violators?

Author has decided to bump off the character of Kalpana from Suvir's life. None of the characters from previous two books make an appearance.

Character of Baba Santok Singh was created with a lot of promise but makes a hasty exit. Character of Avjeet is seriously underdeveloped. It's not clear why Aranjit does, what she does. In short the characterization is not good.

Suvir enters the story at about 50% of the book and meets Simran for the first time at around 60% of the book. The real story starts only after that. Author has lost to much page space in developing background and preamble leaving little time for the real story.

Author has created a seed for next book that should have a showdown between Suvir and Simran.

This book is not in the league of first one, not even second one. Give it a miss.