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eni_se 's review for:
Aru Shah and the End of Time
by Roshani Chokshi
DID NOT FINISH
I really wanted to like this book. But alas, these characters are the most annoying I’ve encountered.
You know how certain Middle-grade authors like Neil Gaiman, Jessica Townsend, Carson Gail Levine, or Rick Riordan (yes I know how ironic this last one is) have this amazing absurdist charm and humor? Well, Aru Shah’s author tries to emulate it but fails so badly. Maybe for a 5-year-old these jokes ARE funny (never mind the protagonist in this is like 12-13), but the book lost me when it started making “fun” similes with people peeing in a pool.
I just wanted a happy, escapist book right now that wasn’t so heavy (and I was very excited by an own-voices middle-grade fantasy book.) But by chapter four I was questioning whether I was liking anything or if there was anything at all I could save to keep me reading. But there wasn’t. And I had just become way to annoyed with it. I had to DNF. Sorry.
You know how certain Middle-grade authors like Neil Gaiman, Jessica Townsend, Carson Gail Levine, or Rick Riordan (yes I know how ironic this last one is) have this amazing absurdist charm and humor? Well, Aru Shah’s author tries to emulate it but fails so badly. Maybe for a 5-year-old these jokes ARE funny (never mind the protagonist in this is like 12-13), but the book lost me when it started making “fun” similes with people peeing in a pool.
I just wanted a happy, escapist book right now that wasn’t so heavy (and I was very excited by an own-voices middle-grade fantasy book.) But by chapter four I was questioning whether I was liking anything or if there was anything at all I could save to keep me reading. But there wasn’t. And I had just become way to annoyed with it. I had to DNF. Sorry.