Saiqa / صاعقہ

by Razia Butt

Saiqa by Razia Butt

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

Razia Butt was an Urdu novelist and playwright from Pakistan. Her novels typically have strong female protagonists, and have been dramatised in movies and television plays.

Reviews

[Ayn Skyfighter · Rating 4 out of 5]

A romantic fiction, set in Pakistan at the time when marriages were arranged by a persons grandparents. Saiqa a twenty year old girl, orphaned at a very young age, lives with her grandmother, aunts and uncle in the Palace with the red domes. However, the palace is a hellhole for her as she is mistreated for her parents actions. The only person who cares for her is her caretaker; who is as ugly, as she is loving from inside, her aunt Anjum Ara who lives far away and visits a few times and her uncle Fakhr who doesn't shows her his love openly due to his wife.

Saiqa has a crush on her cousin Rehan, who is her biggest tormentor, but he likes his cousin. Rehan and other children in the palace have been brainwashed to believe that Saiqa's presence is a curse by the superstitious aldults whose hearts burn with the fire of hatred.

The book is written in Urdu with a little advanced vocabulary level. It gets quite emotional near the end.

[Ramsha gulzar · Rating 5 out of 5]

its a great novel ......i jus love reading this ....<3

[Allen · Rating 1 out of 5]

contents are very boring. I thought i would get some useful information but this is very disappointing.!!

I'm not going to read anymore!

[Mariya Kamran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really liked this novel, great work Razia Butt.