I've never read any mythology fiction before but this book is the perfect place to start in my opinion! She swings wildly from impersonal and respectful to sarcastic and blunt within the same conversation, no matter who she’s talking to. And the mysteries hiding in each journey varied so much that it’s not surprising most people were afraid of the zones.

Inspired by the fate of Penelope’s maids in Homer’s The Odyssey, this is a lavish epic of power, vengeance, love and fate.However, I think, the time concept being presented was too heavy, and repetitive at times, without considering readers’ understanding, perhaps? Her determination to work with her father to uncover the secrets of these scattered time areas, makes her easy to root for. Catfish Rolling takes many contradictory stories and ideas and seamlessly weaves them into a single tale. There are a few examples of how different people experience these emotions and their reactions to them.

I had quite a hard time digesting the philosophical and scientific arguments and discussions of Sora’s personal monologues. I love the dialogues between Sora and her father because, their banters would be funny although they were actually quarelling.

Then, it fast forwards to her graduation, where she's still suffering under the loss of her mother (years later), but considering the various time pockets, which have formed, her attitude is understandable. In fact everything changed that fateful day when the catfish who dwells beneath the surface grew restless and needed to flounder and roll about, with consequences that altered the very flow of time itself caused by an earthquake so powerful it fractured the very fabric of reality. Since then, the hardest-hit areas have fractured into zones, each flowing at a different pace of time.

Identity, family and loss are key themes running throughout the novel where myth, fantasy and scientific discovery collide.

The way the zones warp time is very similar to the effects that grief can have on our perception- and memory of time.

The majority of the story takes place seven years later, as the world is adjusting to the change in time flow in certain areas. It checks so many of my boxes; an emotionally layered, slowly unfurling story centring grief, change and the progression of time.Her overseas adventure brings great wonder, but Luki soon discovers a darker side, of racism and inequality.