A review by amymarietruax
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

2.0

Ok so the first two thirds of this book are like 1-2 stars and the last third is more like 3-4, so I'm meeting in the middle. It *finally* got interesting towards the end, so I really wish the entire book had been about that part of the plot: the role of Indian soldiers fighting for Britain in WW2. The entire huge part about the Burmese royals was just..... not that interesting or well-written. Honestly the entire thing just felt like a sort of soulless recitation of events, with gruesome, tragic deaths being talked about in the same way as mundane daily life for the royal family. Overall, not a fan.