A review by bluestjuice
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

3.0

It seems like I've been reading this so long that I've been absorbed into it - I hardly know any more whether I liked it or not, only that I had to finish it in order to find out what happened. It's massive and multi-layered, and I admit to having been more wooed by the character dramas than the political landscape - the background the politics provided was important, but I could have done with less detail. I cruised through the last 200 pages but now feel somewhat let down - I'm not sure I don't understand the way the different plotlines were resolved, but I didn't really enjoy the ending and I'm not sure what the author was trying to say through it. I guess my feelings on this novel are ambivalent.