A review by reshipping
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

first quarter of the book was so promising. it felt like gabriel garcia marquez and i was captivated by the writing! after a while it all kind of fell apart with the sheer weight of the plot that was too heavy and moving much too fast, undoing the work of the character building before. i truly enjoyed the writing in the first half, but i would not give this a second read.