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srividyaupp 's review for:
The Boy with Fire
by Aparna Verma
The way I wanted to smash through this book in one setting and the way my life conspired against me in this last month are truly at odds with the way I LOVED THIS BOOK WITHOUT RESERVATION EVEN THOUGH IT TOOK ME THREE WEEKS TO GIVE IT ITS DUE AND FINISH IT! I normally write to you, amorphous Goodreads friends, or to myself about the experience of the story.
But perhaps because of how I discovered this book, I write to Author Aparna Verma: Hi!! I just finished The Phoenix King and I’ve been following this journey since the teasers and your cover reveal. I can’t express quite yet how wonderful it has been losing myself in Ravence with Elena, Yassen, and (unexpectedly!!) Leo and Ferma and Samson. What a magnificently complex cast of characters to fall head over heels in love with! Thank you also for the nuanced, yet completely normalized, Desi and Asian and African strains of folklore, culture, and mythology woven within. It was beautiful to not see italics everywhere for normal words like mera/o/I or lehenga or pav bhaji. Also the gasp I practically screamed at my dining table towards the end was delicious and wrecking. I read fantasy, scifi, and mystery as though my life depends on it (it probably does at this point) and the way I tell you I didn’t see the Prophet coming??????? Anyway, LOVE your work! Can’t wait for the next installment
But perhaps because of how I discovered this book, I write to Author Aparna Verma: Hi!! I just finished The Phoenix King and I’ve been following this journey since the teasers and your cover reveal. I can’t express quite yet how wonderful it has been losing myself in Ravence with Elena, Yassen, and (unexpectedly!!) Leo and Ferma and Samson. What a magnificently complex cast of characters to fall head over heels in love with! Thank you also for the nuanced, yet completely normalized, Desi and Asian and African strains of folklore, culture, and mythology woven within. It was beautiful to not see italics everywhere for normal words like mera/o/I or lehenga or pav bhaji. Also the gasp I practically screamed at my dining table towards the end was delicious and wrecking. I read fantasy, scifi, and mystery as though my life depends on it (it probably does at this point) and the way I tell you I didn’t see the Prophet coming??????? Anyway, LOVE your work! Can’t wait for the next installment