A review by christinefolan
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie

2.0

I « finished » this book with about seventy pages to go and I couldn’t motivate myself to finish it. I loved the premise of a modern 1001 Nights and looked forward to Rushdie’s poetic style. However, I found the female characters to be flat and stereotypes, perpetuating harmful prejudices. And the story didn’t seem to have sufficient direction. It was like killing time between an interesting beginning and an ending that I just couldn’t sit around to wait for.