The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak (Book Review by Mohit Rathore)
📍 The Forty Rules of Love contains two intertwined stories: Sweet Blasphemy, which narrates the relationship between Rumi and Shams as written by Aziz Z. Zahara, a self-proclaimed Sufism follower, and Ella's story, a reader who has taken the job of reading the book, and making a report on it, that is Sweet Blasphemy. As soon as she starts reading the book she feels that the author has written this seeing her situation. Ella is married to David. She is soon going to turn forty, has three kids. 📍 The book emphasizes Sufism's importance in understanding different perspectives, and the narrative shifts from the main characters to other individuals such as beggars, innkeepers, novices, prostitutes, guards, Rumi's family, and others. 📍 Although The Forty Rules of Love focuses on the importance of loving God, some of the rules felt forced into the plot. 📍 First I'd like to point out things I didn't like in the book:- 1. I couldn't believe Kimya would think lik...