Take a photo of a barcode or cover
luluwoohoo 's review for:
A Rising Man
by Abir Mukherjee
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
☀️☀️
▪️ An historical crime novel that wants so badly to be a classic that it engages every trope imaginable without providing anything unique, surprising or interesting
▪️The historical period of 1920's India was what attracted me to this story initially, but the white perspective was overshadowed with racist undertones that are undoubtedly appropriate for the era but made reading this book difficult for me. The refusal to call Sergeant Surendranath by his real name and resorting to "Surrender-not" like the other British characters set this story on a path that barely deviated and the lack of growth on Sam's part really let the novel down
▪️ There were some decent one-liners throughout but generally the prose was descriptive without really adding much to the emotional drive of the story. In contrast I found the action sequences lacking in description and therefore their pacing felt off compared to the rest of the book
▪️ Overall this was not for me at all. I wasn't emotionally engaged in this story at any point. It felt like a box-ticking novel that didn't even attempt to veer from the stereotypical path it copied from more interesting authors.
"The stairwell smelled of respectability. In truth, it smelled of disinfectant, but in Calcutta that's pretty much the same thing."
☀️☀️
▪️ An historical crime novel that wants so badly to be a classic that it engages every trope imaginable without providing anything unique, surprising or interesting
▪️The historical period of 1920's India was what attracted me to this story initially, but the white perspective was overshadowed with racist undertones that are undoubtedly appropriate for the era but made reading this book difficult for me. The refusal to call Sergeant Surendranath by his real name and resorting to "Surrender-not" like the other British characters set this story on a path that barely deviated and the lack of growth on Sam's part really let the novel down
▪️ There were some decent one-liners throughout but generally the prose was descriptive without really adding much to the emotional drive of the story. In contrast I found the action sequences lacking in description and therefore their pacing felt off compared to the rest of the book
▪️ Overall this was not for me at all. I wasn't emotionally engaged in this story at any point. It felt like a box-ticking novel that didn't even attempt to veer from the stereotypical path it copied from more interesting authors.
"The stairwell smelled of respectability. In truth, it smelled of disinfectant, but in Calcutta that's pretty much the same thing."