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maggie_sotos 's review for:
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
I'm gonna' be real here: This was a HATE READ by the end.
My God I could not stand this novel. It began promising enough, with interesting descriptions set in a country I don't read much about. I was here for this book! I wanted it to be good! Ugh and it just was not.
The plot was meandering, the perspective jumps confusing, the references utterly remote. I had no context for 1986 social upheaval in India, but rather than feel curious or fascinated by it, I just felt detached and bored.
TBF I read the audiobook, and the nature of the writing makes it hard to follow a reader along without feeling lost. But yeah, this book DESPERATELY needed an editor. I was dying by the end. I mean, this is a critically acclaimed novel so I must be missing something, right?
My God I could not stand this novel. It began promising enough, with interesting descriptions set in a country I don't read much about. I was here for this book! I wanted it to be good! Ugh and it just was not.
The plot was meandering, the perspective jumps confusing, the references utterly remote. I had no context for 1986 social upheaval in India, but rather than feel curious or fascinated by it, I just felt detached and bored.
TBF I read the audiobook, and the nature of the writing makes it hard to follow a reader along without feeling lost. But yeah, this book DESPERATELY needed an editor. I was dying by the end. I mean, this is a critically acclaimed novel so I must be missing something, right?