sookieskipper 's review for:

Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
3.0

Maybe the second book in series will tell me about characters. Maybe next book will be paced in a way its easier to figure out what is going on than navigating through paragraphs of words that go nowhere. Maybe the sequel will explore the interaction and dynamics between the characters than the happenstances that come off as random.

Ghosh's writing is stellar in some places where he works as an observer and derives conclusions than someone who is spouting off information by looking at things. (There are paragraphs where he narrates the way someone dresses or food arrangements or colloquial words.)

It would be interesting to read the next book (which I am going to right now) because this book ended literally mid-sentence.