Reviews - The Immortal King Rao

362 reviews for:

The Immortal King Rao

Vauhini Vara

3.7 AVERAGE

whataboutzana's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

beccackle's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

DNF at 32%. Just couldn’t get into it. :/

gkcf's review against another edition

3.75

challenging informative medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

sarahcate98's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

philip_bonanno's review against another edition

4.5

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The ending is SO GOOD. I can see why this has so much acclaim the writing style seems very en vogue (non-linear and inter generational storytelling, imaginative but based on Earth, climate tale, etc.) but some of the storylines are more compelling than others. Reminds me a little of Namwali Serpell, but I think is better written than the Old Drift

amandasupak's review against another edition

3.0

3.5 stars

This book has 3 separate timeliness: 1) the humble beginnings of a dalit caste boy in India growing who grows up on coconut farm 2) his adult life when he because this universe's version of Steve Jobs, who makes the coconut computer (rather than apple) 3) a young women who is growing up in the dystopian mega-capitalist world government owned by coconut.

The most interesting stories were from the last 2 , and the first one with him growing up really dragged on. It had waaaaay too many characters to keep up with and the momentum of the book really lagged in those sections.

Also the ending is so wtf, I don't even understand why he ended it that way....