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internetnomads 's review for:
The Far Pavilions
by M.M. Kaye
When this book is good, it is *so* good. On the edge of your seat, unputdownable good. The middle of this book literally raised my hair!
But it's a long one. I skimmed the last quarter because the author just seems to give up. She switches subjects from India to Afghanistan, from suttee to a massacre in a British Mission. The tone of the book changes for the worse and I was bored of the detailed descriptions of the location. I understand that Kaye is drawing on the experiences of her grandfather, to whom the events happened, but I think she found it a bit more interesting than I did.
But it's a long one. I skimmed the last quarter because the author just seems to give up. She switches subjects from India to Afghanistan, from suttee to a massacre in a British Mission. The tone of the book changes for the worse and I was bored of the detailed descriptions of the location. I understand that Kaye is drawing on the experiences of her grandfather, to whom the events happened, but I think she found it a bit more interesting than I did.