bonnieg 's review for:

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

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I am going to skip the star rating. Made it to page 124 and called it. I found the prose overwrought and there is no subtlety at all in the storyline (I also was not crazy about the structure, but I can't really say what bugged me.) Everything that happens is utterly plot driven, people's actions are what are need to move the story where Kapoor wants it to go, and are never actions we understand based upon what little we know about the characters. Also, everything is on the page - there is no room for imagination. It reminded me of reading Dan Brown (not a compliment) but the Indian version. It was just 100% not interesting to me and there are plenty of other books to read. I am in the tiny minority, people seem to love this, but I call 'em as I see 'em. .