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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is going to make incredible TV. Kapoor writes so well that I felt I could see this book unfolding before me, one rich tapestry of disaster after the next.
I loved:
I loved:
- Her writing style - it’s gorgeous!! Like “this is kali yuga, the losing age, the age of vice. The people on the road will remain dead. The baby will remain unborn. The Gautams of this world will rise. The Ajays will always take the fall. And Sunny? I don’t know. I don’t know anything anymore. The wheel will keep turning toward the dissolution that will swallow us all.” ??? And I’m just supposed to ho about my day after that??
- The settings were so vivid
Unfortunately so was the VIOLENCe, wow. Please read all the trigger warnings for this one, it’s really something.
I also felt like this was a book lacking in women. Neda’s voice crops up half way through but it’s not enough to counter balance the violent thoughts and actions towards women throughout. HOWEVER, I know this is a trilogy and my hope is that
I hated:
- Sunny’s chapters at the end -
he somehow fails at BOTH being a good person and being a good gangster The kidnapping plot we could have skipped if it wasn’t going to sober him up/change his perspective, and Sunil’s chapters were too long and unpleasant with no pay off
And I loved to hate:
- The total Big Brother of it all - the Wadia net is cast so wide, and I loved that like the characters, I too was shocked at their complicity at every turn and in every terrible thing.
- The badassery of it all - I know, I KNOW it’s awful and violent and ugly, but it’s also opulent and powerful and interesting.
I hope the next books come out soon, because this world was so big and complex that I’ll forget everything in no time.
Dnf at 25%
I just didn't connect to the writing at all. We are kept at a distance throughout making it hard to feel the story. It is very "this happened, and then this, and then he went there, and he did this, and the he went over there and he did that"
The introduction was intriguing but I don't have it in me to read 500+ pages of this
I just didn't connect to the writing at all. We are kept at a distance throughout making it hard to feel the story. It is very "this happened, and then this, and then he went there, and he did this, and the he went over there and he did that"
The introduction was intriguing but I don't have it in me to read 500+ pages of this
Disturbing, raw and action packed book that spans multiple provinces in India and many characters.
Fans of the movie Saltburn should pick up this book.
This book has great world and character building!
Fans of the movie Saltburn should pick up this book.
This book has great world and character building!
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Would have been 3.5 if not for the last 200 pages. None of the characters resonated with me after that point and it lagged like crazy only to feel super rushed at the end.
Rounded up to a 3, but I think this is more of a 2.5 from me. This book felt, at times, that its plot would be some important political view about corruption. But it really wasn't. I don't all together know what the actual point of this entire massive block was.
Told from the point of view of a poor boy who becomes a servant, a bored journalist, the center of it all, and at the end some other characters. Ajay and Neda's view is how they came to meet Sunny Wadia, the son of a rich big-man that no one seems to know too much about. Their stories lead to a night that changed their lives forever - when Sunny all but discarded them. Sunnys view point is after this hallowed night; how he came to be entwined in his father's enterprise and how miserable he is about his own choices.
Told from the point of view of a poor boy who becomes a servant, a bored journalist, the center of it all, and at the end some other characters. Ajay and Neda's view is how they came to meet Sunny Wadia, the son of a rich big-man that no one seems to know too much about. Their stories lead to a night that changed their lives forever - when Sunny all but discarded them. Sunnys view point is after this hallowed night; how he came to be entwined in his father's enterprise and how miserable he is about his own choices.
Huh. The first 3/4 of the book was so good! I was rooting for Ajay and I wanted to hear the end of his story. But the last 1/4….did I need to be high to understand it? I’m so confused, does anyone want to clarify the ending?
dark
fast-paced