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A review by singlecrow
The House that BJ Built by Anuja Chauhan
3.0
I had somehow not read this sequel to Those Pricey Thakur Girls? It's set twenty years later, so the five sisters have dispersed and are brought back together because their father the judge has died just before selling the house on Hailey Road. His awful younger brother is now claiming that Lakshmi Narayan Thakur was illegitimate, due to his mother the Pushkarni (famously the ghost that haunts the first book) having had an affair, and thus his daughters can't inherit. Hijinks ensue. The viewpoint character is Bonu, one of the grandchildren, who has grown up to be smart and practical and ruthless, except that she's sort of falling in love with her step cousin Samar (who is now a film director!). More hijinks ensue.
As a whole, though, I didn't like this book as much as its predecessor. It relies a little too heavily on its set pieces - which are, to be fair, great; there's one where Samar somehow ends up shooting an item number called "Aur Jee" (say it out loud) - and I'm also not convinced that the subplot romance is that great; Satish was a dick in the first book and is still one now. But it's still extremely readable and funny.
As a whole, though, I didn't like this book as much as its predecessor. It relies a little too heavily on its set pieces - which are, to be fair, great; there's one where Samar somehow ends up shooting an item number called "Aur Jee" (say it out loud) - and I'm also not convinced that the subplot romance is that great; Satish was a dick in the first book and is still one now. But it's still extremely readable and funny.