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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Vivid, absorbing, intense. This one is a wild ride of violence, deceit, betrayal, power, and a love that couldn’t exist among it all. A masterpiece of human fallibility.
Was struggling to read, the long run-on sentences were hard to keep track of.
My batting average is not high when I grab something off of the 7-day shelf on a whim, and this did not raise it.
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5 stars. Reads like a movie, but I think I might have preferred it as a film! The story centers on an epically flawed heir to a gang. His fall from grace annoyed me more than anything and the more compelling character - love interest, Neda - was sidelined too quickly. But the majority of the book kept me intrigued.
Until the end, when the story gets entangled in all sorts of other backstories in a way that felt a bit rushed and ultimately I felt the writing didn’t hold up here.
Until the end, when the story gets entangled in all sorts of other backstories in a way that felt a bit rushed and ultimately I felt the writing didn’t hold up here.
I have very mixed feelings about this book. Overall, I was drawn in and enjoyed the interwoven stories. I felt let down by the ending, which was abrupt and unsatisfying. What ever happens with Vicky? Why was a character like Sunil added with so much backstory in the last 100 pages? What about Neda? I would probably give it 3.5 stars which I’ve rounded up to 4.
Weird book. I found the characters flat and stereotypical, and it was a struggle to complete. Apparently this may be the first in a trilogy, and I can't say I'd pick up the rest. I could see it being a fine movie though! I don't think this book needed to be as long as it was, for being so flat.