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A review by readbooks_eatapples
Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn
4.0
3.5 really. This book had a lot of potential. I think she handled the exoticism angle relatively well, with Julia's typical snobby self awareness, and it was relatively engaging. As always, I love the complex interplay of the main character and her family, and the secondary characters are usually pretty interesting. The trouble I had was that there was a bit too much going on in the background, to the point where it both crept along and got a little overblown.
There is a trigger warning here, something that really really turned me off at almost the end of the story. SPOILER:
Oh the burying of the gaysssss. I love the potential of the character that was killed off with very little fanfare about five minutes before the end of the book. It didn't ruin the story for me, but it was very disappointing after all that had happened. I'll definitely read the next one, though I'm sad that it fell into this trope.
There is a trigger warning here, something that really really turned me off at almost the end of the story. SPOILER:
Oh the burying of the gaysssss. I love the potential of the character that was killed off with very little fanfare about five minutes before the end of the book. It didn't ruin the story for me, but it was very disappointing after all that had happened. I'll definitely read the next one, though I'm sad that it fell into this trope.