178 reviews for:

The Magnificent Ruins

Nayantara Roy

3.89 AVERAGE

dababriggs's review

4.0

adventurous challenging medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

nhariyani's review

4.0

emotional medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

btocco's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

kristens_bookshelf's review

4.0

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As always, thanks to Algonquin Books for sending me this ARC! I think this is the first book I have read published by them and it won't be my last.

Reading this book was like reading a Bollywood movie! Every emotion you can think of was conjured while reading this story. It even had a little twist at the end that I was not expecting and I audibly said "WAIT WHAT!?" and had to go back and reread a little bit for the "O.M.G." moment.
The author did an amazing job with the world building. I could see every landscape and taste every meal as if I was standing in the world with the characters. Also the little tid-bits of history on the region and political climate added so much to the story.

abookishtype's review

4.0

challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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In some ways, I would consider Lila De a lucky woman. She’s an editor at a rising publishing house in New York. (I would love to have this job, if I couldn’t be a librarian.) She makes enough to afford her own apartment in one of the most expensive cities in the world. On the other hand, she’s less lucky in love and downright unlucky when it comes to some members of her family. Lila’s sudden inheritance of her grandfather’s house in Kolkata—where many of the members of her mother’s family live—turns out to be as much good luck as it is bad. The Magnificent Ruins, by Nayantara Roy, follows Lila as she wrestles with literal and metaphorical inheritances, good and bad love, and the past and the future of her very messy family...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration. 

booksbybrady's review

4.25

emotional 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: No

eveningstar_reader's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mrlzbth's review

4.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes