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The Flower of Pain
This is book two in the Broken Kaleidoscope Series, a collection of short stories and novellas. The series is an exploration of the darkness that pervades humanity, and its many shades.
Book Two contains The Flower of Pain
Swarali is a shy college student with a love for books, a funny bone, and a kind heart.
Ila is a fellow nerd, but she is different from Swarali. Indeed, different from all of her other classmates; a difference that sets her apart, quite literally, from everybody else.
The Flower of Pain is a heart-breaking tale of an improbable friendship that stands the tests of time and society.
Book Two contains The Flower of Pain
Swarali is a shy college student with a love for books, a funny bone, and a kind heart.
Ila is a fellow nerd, but she is different from Swarali. Indeed, different from all of her other classmates; a difference that sets her apart, quite literally, from everybody else.
The Flower of Pain is a heart-breaking tale of an improbable friendship that stands the tests of time and society.
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Published January 5, 2019
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April 6, 2019
This is a powerful way to express how; one realises their ignorance toward identity, how a person journeys through their life with knowledge but not experience and acceptance for wrong-doing.
Swarali’s paired up with the outcast, Ila, for an English project. The outcome of this is an oddly satisfying friendship is made after the initial awkwardness, that shouts out ‘up yours’ to the indifferent.
Ila explains to Swarali how she realised who she was and how she could express it. Their peers were amused by this friendship and don’t really acknowledge it until it goes a little pear shaped.
Swarali, is unaware that although she has accepted Ila as who she is; a man in a woman’s body, a transgender. She is yet to accept the wider LGBQT community. This keeps them apart for a number of weeks neither one talking to the other until Swarali realises that she has basically ridiculed her friend the way everyone else does and she must rectify this.
Things get back on track until the English project is completed and rumours are circulated which ends up with Ila being bullied and abused then was suspended from college.
There is nothing more scary that your average group of ‘popular kids’ and the ‘sub groups’ that all fit within each other. But when there is just one person that doen’t ‘fit’ into any of those groups how do you think that would affect them? The negative energy that those groups throw toward that one person because they are different is monumentous. But it only takes ONE person to make that change to take that negative energy and show it some respect. Using their own mind their own act of selflessness to interact with someone who has been set apart from the ‘norm’ and begin to understand why they might be different.
Well done to Ramesh for putting this together and executing this message. It really hits you, hard.
The downside I am finding is this is supposed to be a collective of short stories, there is only one story (which is brilliant), don’t get me wrong I really enjoyed it, but it might be worth collating further stories for the LGBQT community and presenting them.
I’m not really joining the dot’s up as to why this is a trilogy? These stories are not long enough, readers need and want more to get their teeth into.
Swarali’s paired up with the outcast, Ila, for an English project. The outcome of this is an oddly satisfying friendship is made after the initial awkwardness, that shouts out ‘up yours’ to the indifferent.
Ila explains to Swarali how she realised who she was and how she could express it. Their peers were amused by this friendship and don’t really acknowledge it until it goes a little pear shaped.
Swarali, is unaware that although she has accepted Ila as who she is; a man in a woman’s body, a transgender. She is yet to accept the wider LGBQT community. This keeps them apart for a number of weeks neither one talking to the other until Swarali realises that she has basically ridiculed her friend the way everyone else does and she must rectify this.
Things get back on track until the English project is completed and rumours are circulated which ends up with Ila being bullied and abused then was suspended from college.
There is nothing more scary that your average group of ‘popular kids’ and the ‘sub groups’ that all fit within each other. But when there is just one person that doen’t ‘fit’ into any of those groups how do you think that would affect them? The negative energy that those groups throw toward that one person because they are different is monumentous. But it only takes ONE person to make that change to take that negative energy and show it some respect. Using their own mind their own act of selflessness to interact with someone who has been set apart from the ‘norm’ and begin to understand why they might be different.
Well done to Ramesh for putting this together and executing this message. It really hits you, hard.
The downside I am finding is this is supposed to be a collective of short stories, there is only one story (which is brilliant), don’t get me wrong I really enjoyed it, but it might be worth collating further stories for the LGBQT community and presenting them.
I’m not really joining the dot’s up as to why this is a trilogy? These stories are not long enough, readers need and want more to get their teeth into.
March 18, 2019
Oh my god. I'm still shocked by the ending, even though I should have realized that something like that would happen. How? Why? This is literally one way to destroy everyone's feelings and destroying them together, especially that ending before the epilogue happened.
This takes with two new characters named Swarali and Illa, who are partners for a school project they were doing. This book is much longer with like 20 more so pages which is perfect time to develop the characters more and not be rushed, which I kinda felt like that kinda happened, but the two characters are different from each other.
Swarali is more the open one in the relationship and wants to Illa once she learns more about Illa's secrets. Illa, is the introvert, not really revealing much about herself and it kinda seemed that the author would make these to be happy, but that literally did not happen.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that the author had made Illa transgender, and didn't make her whole personality about the way she was transitioning. She felt real with her introverted personality, and her struggles along with her family.
The darkness to this book was mostly about bullying and how people who don't know htings likes to make up rumors to the victims to make their whole life miserable. That was a nice aspect to it, and I totally related to that. Words could hurt and often times could make someone want to end their pain.
This takes with two new characters named Swarali and Illa, who are partners for a school project they were doing. This book is much longer with like 20 more so pages which is perfect time to develop the characters more and not be rushed, which I kinda felt like that kinda happened, but the two characters are different from each other.
Swarali is more the open one in the relationship and wants to Illa once she learns more about Illa's secrets. Illa, is the introvert, not really revealing much about herself and it kinda seemed that the author would make these to be happy, but that literally did not happen.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that the author had made Illa transgender, and didn't make her whole personality about the way she was transitioning. She felt real with her introverted personality, and her struggles along with her family.
The darkness to this book was mostly about bullying and how people who don't know htings likes to make up rumors to the victims to make their whole life miserable. That was a nice aspect to it, and I totally related to that. Words could hurt and often times could make someone want to end their pain.
January 23, 2019
Heartbreaking - the pain we inflict on others!
A stunning read. For anyone who has been viewed as 'different' we can all understand the pain that was suffered. Just because we are outside the 'norm' accepted by society is this the society that we wish to live in. A society that can lead us to being so broken and rejected that the only way out is Death. However even in death our passing might not be forgotten and even if we only change one person's viewpoint could it not cause the Butterfly Effect. After all it could be 'a small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'.
A stunning read. For anyone who has been viewed as 'different' we can all understand the pain that was suffered. Just because we are outside the 'norm' accepted by society is this the society that we wish to live in. A society that can lead us to being so broken and rejected that the only way out is Death. However even in death our passing might not be forgotten and even if we only change one person's viewpoint could it not cause the Butterfly Effect. After all it could be 'a small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'.
January 19, 2019
The Flower of pain was a well orchestrated story of the tragic balance of society and the ideals of a collective. Shunned and battered, the focus character had endured so much rejection and ridicule. Thus, Tragedy promoted change. Whether, it’s big or small, it’s impactful on the lives of those around them. The message is clear within the author’s story, and I loved it.
November 13, 2019
This was a YA story but there were some pretty heavy themes and discussions in this book. The characters were well rounded and real. The stories were at times heartbreaking and at times hints of hope.
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