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oftheglade 's review for:
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
A slow start with a winding narrative that seems super pointless to begin with but is the ultimate ‘no way was that detail important’ twisting story! The original who-dunnit that clearly sets up half the tropes of the genre but it still had my audibly GASPING at various reveals.
I know a lot of people give it flack for the racism and yes, it’s true, ‘The Indians’ are considered ‘evil’ for the majority of the book but the messaging is actually very anti-colonialist and they are presented as evil only to the white narrators of the book but not by the author at all.
The switching narrators and different POVs to weave the events together was so fun, and seeing inside everyone’s heads was delightful. I just wish we had a section narrated by Rachel Verinder herself. This wasn’t just a detective novel, or a romance, or just a mystery, or just any one genre and I really rate it.
I know a lot of people give it flack for the racism and yes, it’s true, ‘The Indians’ are considered ‘evil’ for the majority of the book but the messaging is actually very anti-colonialist and they are presented as evil only to the white narrators of the book but not by the author at all.
The switching narrators and different POVs to weave the events together was so fun, and seeing inside everyone’s heads was delightful. I just wish we had a section narrated by Rachel Verinder herself. This wasn’t just a detective novel, or a romance, or just a mystery, or just any one genre and I really rate it.