A review by epearl8
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye

I typically don't like giving reviews to books I haven't finished, but after attempting this one on and off for 3 years and getting just under halfway through I'm gonna count it. It's disappointing because I was pretty damn positive I was gonna love this one but, alas. It's an interesting concept but it stretches believability at times. Would Indians really look at a European kid, no matter how sun tanned, and think he was indian?? I doubt it. It also doesn't seem to have narrative flow. Even almost halfway in I still feel like I'm just following subplots instead of a real story. The characters are pretty solid but feel far from great. The writing style definitely has some prosaic descriptions of landscape and emotion but not much stands out and the book just feels so damn drawn out I found it to be a slog to keep trying to read. I won't give a star rating since I didn't finish it, but the book certainly let me down.