Reviews - Dava Shastri's Last Day

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Dava Shastri's Last Day

Kirthana Ramisetti

3.53 AVERAGE

eyrodriguez's review against another edition

3.0

emotional reflective sad 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

mugglemom's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

Is this supposed to be satire or a major contradiction of terms? I.e. can you be a rag to riches worker –empire building billionaire philanthropic but still be a self-centered, egoistical, moron idiot genius? Well, I guess so if you are Dava or whoever she is meant to mildly portray. (Steve Jobs comes to mind as he denied his first daughter as he became a billionaire philanthropic.) Am I supposed to believe Dava was this dumb but still managed to create her empire without a lick of common sense AND still become a billionaire? Who makes the choices that Dava did in real life? Or even real life in 2044 the setting of this book – gimme a break – this was so preposterous it boarded on fantasy.

This story was boring, groan worthy and at times just mind boggling illogical –hint, I made a ton of the gagging noises and more than my fair share of eyerolling – surprised I didn’t give myself a migraine. I skimmed the rest of the book, torturously. Sandy, just one of the crap characters, is my pick for the worst written AND woeful stereotypical character in the book.

5 stars for the narrator, Soneela Nankani. I am sorry this is in her audio portfolio – she deserves better and kudos to her for putting in the work for this farce of a story. So glad it was a library loan. Bin it back so fast.....

bridgetlovesbooks's review against another edition

4.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

scocco32's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Yes

priyastoric's review against another edition

3.5

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Another new author that I picked up because of the Lilly Singh book club, that was a light read. Well, not light because the premise was about a woman looking back on her life as she gets ready to die, but light in the sense that even within the somewhat bleak subject matter (debilitating disease, assisted death) it managed to share Dava Shastri's live in a way that didn't feel bleak or heavy handed.

I think what I really appreciated about the book, in the end, was that it was a story about scheduling. That you can try to plan for every part of your life (or death) but sometimes the unexpected changes are what makes those final moments worthwhile.