Maureen's Reviews > The Girl in the Road

In ‘The Girl in The Road’ we meet Meena. Meena wakes up one morning covered in blood. There are mysterious snakebites on her chest. Immediately Meena knows she is in danger, and she tries to flee India. On her journey she learns about ‘The Trail’, an futuristic energy bridge across the Arabian sea. While Meena is fleeing she slowly finds out more about her past, and her past is not so ‘fun’ to remember.
We also meet Mariama, a west African girl who’s also escaping her past by traveling to another country. The story alternates between these two characters, but we soon find out that there is more to their story than we first expected.

The thing that immediately came to mind when I began writing this review, was that this book was written in a very interesting way. Because of this it was not an easy book to read, there were a lot of different names to get to know, there was some talk about modern technology which I had some difficulty following in the beginning of the book and the characters are all a little ‘weird’ in the sense that it took me some time to figure out what there deal was. But if you keep on reading, this book is definitely worth your time. It’s interesting, unlike anything I’ve read before and very fascinating.

There is a lot of mystery in this book. And not a lot is revealed in the beginning. Slowly on some mysteries are resolved and I really admire Monica Byrne for the way she wrote this book. This story is more intense than I originally thought, and it’s even hard to read at times. But I’m so glad I kept going because this is a book that stays with you.

To be honest, this book is not really my ‘normal’ kind of read. But I did enjoy it, especially since it was a little out of my comfort zone. So I give it 3 stars because I really did like it, but it did take me a long time to really ‘get’ the story.