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Age of Vice
by Deepti Kapoor
This was surprisingly fun. Though, I didn’t know it wasn’t a stand alone, which might have influenced if I’d read it or not. It’s incredibly sprawling and changes perspectives multiple times. From Ajay at a young age, to those he encounters along the way. After making a decision with wild ramifications, he gets embroiled with a rich, corrupt mafia-esk baron’s son, spiralling his life into chaos, death, and a destructive cycle that defines the age, as well as the country and city he entrenches himself in.
It is gripping and tense throughout, but ebbs slightly when specific events being entangled. Three character perspectives continually go over the same time period, making some of the information redundant. Sometimes the perspective can be interesting. But a lot of the time it can be inferred and the section truncated.
Some of those sections do elucidate how the age progresses and why some events occur. Though, I think some of my favourite developments and choices have no clear through line. Destruction of the self comes stems from many things in this novel, but sometimes things just “happen”, and that makes it feel more organic and interesting. Such as a completely random story from a random character that is wildly gripping and sets up questions for whatever comes next.
It is gripping and tense throughout, but ebbs slightly when specific events being entangled. Three character perspectives continually go over the same time period, making some of the information redundant. Sometimes the perspective can be interesting. But a lot of the time it can be inferred and the section truncated.
Some of those sections do elucidate how the age progresses and why some events occur. Though, I think some of my favourite developments and choices have no clear through line. Destruction of the self comes stems from many things in this novel, but sometimes things just “happen”, and that makes it feel more organic and interesting. Such as a completely random story from a random character that is wildly gripping and sets up questions for whatever comes next.