A review by anitaw16
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh

2.0

Having read and loved Sea of Poppies, I was very surprised at how hard it was to get in to this sequel; I almost gave up on it more than once. The second half of the book was more entertaining than the first but I was still disappointed. There were several problems with the novel but the thing that bothered me the most was that the author chose to give us caricatures rather than characters. Perhaps two memorable characters emerged from what felt like a cast of thousands. Having said all of that, I probably will read the third installment and hope that this one was an aberration.