A review by ggnanadesikan
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi

2.0

I really wanted to like this, and I might have liked it more as a kid, but I doubt it would have cleared 3 stars even then. I really liked the idea of reimagining the Mahabharata with modern characters, and especially heroines. But it didn't cohere for me. It felt chaotic and all over the place, the didactic moments were rather heavy-handed, and I almost didn't finish reading. And then having pushed through to finish it, it didn't feel worth it. There were a fair number of good moments, but they got drowned out by the chaos.