saruh_12 's review for:

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie

2.0

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I have been meaning to read some Salman Rushdie for years. The Satantic Verses to be sure because it's a classic, but I have also been really intrigued by Midnight's Children for a while.

This book popped up on my Audible when I was browsing for a new audio book, and because of said previous interest, I chose it. It sounded like it would totally be my kind of thing, the idea of this fantasy world intersecting with the "real" world. The children of a jinn suddenly realizing what they are.

Something about this just didn't work for me. It seems to have worked for many other people given the reviews, so I'm willing to say it's not you, Salman Rushdie, it's me. Partially it's that I felt like I was reading some sort of Biblical-historical retelling of an event. Partially it's that I never found a character I cared about what happened to him or her. I felt really... detached from the whole thing. Those jinns could have destroyed the entire world and it wouldn't have affected me one way or the other.

So while this book contained some beautiful writing and possibly a good story, it just wasn't for me. Kudos to all who read and loved this.