Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Today we accept (for the most part) all kinds of forms of love. Love between unmarried couples, love between women or men, love between different social classes. But there is still one kind of love we don’t want to think about, we don’t even want to know that such a love exists. And the author just attends to this type of love – incest. Love between family members, which remains a criminal offense to this day.
Thus, I was initally very curious what story I should expect from this book.
Tabitha Suzuma tells us the story about Lochan and his sister Maya who take charge of their younger three siblings after their father left and their mother became alcoholic. Still kids, they have to go to school, do housework and educate two little children and a troublemaker teenager. The stress of their lives, their need for stability and the fact that they both can rely on each other and know what the other person is going through, take their relationship into an unexpected direction.
If you start reading this book and you know it’s all about incest, you don’t think you can understand the feelings between these siblings or even support their actions, but Tabitha Suzuma has done a really good job to get us really close to the main characters and their feelings. During the first half of the book I learned to understand Lochan, Maya and their situation and I was really interested to see how their relationship would evolve and after it happened I couldn’t wait to know how the author would solve the obvious catch-22 situation.
Although thrilling until the last site, a part of the end was how I expected things would turn out, but I don’t want to disclose more on that.
“Forbidden” by Tabitha Suzuma is a really interesting book with a rarely discussed topic and you are sure to remember it long after you’ve laid it down.