Reviews - The God of Small Things

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The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

3.94 AVERAGE

song_sparrow's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

The consistency of tone, writing from children’s perspectives, weaving of a non-linear story, all so well done.

Content Warnings

joandidionofarc's review against another edition

4.0

4.5 stars holy fucking shit i’ll write an actual review for this when i finish writing my paper on it but this was. holy shit. that’s all i have to say.

hayley_s's review against another edition

2.25

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

ajithwordshaker's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted relaxing sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

connorfrown's review against another edition

4.0

"Without admitting it to each other or themselves, they linked their fates, their futures (their Love, their Madness, their Hope, their Infinite Joy)."

Gut wrenchingly tragic in it's narration. Immensely beautiful in it's prose. Slow at first but the final hundred pages are riveting. Arguably the best book I've read this year.

teddy06's review against another edition

3.0

well my review lies on the 3.5 place value
i loved how perfectly fleshed out the characters were, each their good and each their bad. the plot though was very very loosely tied for me and it all just felt like a short story collection of what happened in the past and then all of it tied in the last two chapters. i wish we focused more of what happend in the 'future timeline'

hecatei's review against another edition

3.0

What just happened?.. would perfectly phrase my jumbled up thoughts having finished this one after such a long time.

Structure. Order. Complete monopoly. It was human history, masquerading as God’s Purpose, revealing herself to an under-age audience.

A disjointed narrative sure; incessant diction but I kind of liked it nonetheless. The lush scape of southern India was home to our main characters, a family displaying the most erratic dynamic yet managing to stick through for lord knows why. Now I would say Rahel and her twin, Estha, had a lot going on in the story but I personally favoured their tragic yet independant mother, Ammu instead. Fascinating would be a close word used to describe how this book is written. Though I'm confused where and what exactly the plot was trying to present?

Rating: 3.4☆s