The Chronicle of Golgotha Days-Sujith Balakrishnan

Book: The Chronicle of Golgotha Days

Author: Sujith Balakrishnan

Publisher: Frog Books (Leadstart Corp)

The patriarchal society we live in treats women as commodities and we have multiple examples they have been mistreated.

The Chronicles of Golgotha Days by Sujith Balakrishnan is the story of Abhaya, a sixteen-year-old girl, who is abducted and forced into a life of endless torment. Living in a new hell each day, she swings between torture and death, but living with a hope that she’ll find her way back home one day. The book explores her story and her journey as it progresses. Is she able to do that and escape her captivity, or is she doomed to spend the rest of her life like this, read the book to find out?

The Chronicles of Golgotha Days has been written from a first-person perspective of Abhaya and how the world seems to her from a sixteen-year-old girl’s perspective. How gullible a person is at that age and how her own follies lead to her pitiable state forms the story. The plot moves on to describe her experiences and how she faces torture through hands of men, and whether such people are worthy of being called men. Moving from place to place across towns and states, we journey through the transformation of an innocent girl to a tortured woman. The plot of the book is interesting but the length of it seems to drag towards the end. The concept of the book is good, but the hold over the reader is missing and thus it fails to amaze in that context. It is tagged as a thriller and a suspense book but again, that part does not show up in the story. The torture part is described vividly and that will make you cringe at points and that is one good point in the book. The climax was not effective and deserved a better treatment than what was given out.

Talking about the characters, the character of Abhaya goes under a transformation throughout the book and that has been taken up nicely. The character of Guru has been created in detail and we can see how the author has taken time to imbibe the necessary traits in him. The other characters are made nicely as well, but while some of them are memorable, the others fade off the moment you turn the page.

Overall, a good read and it scores a 3.5/5 for me.

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