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foreveryum 's review for:
The Centre
by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
This was a good dark & twisty mystery book about an elite confidential language school that makes participants fully fluent in just 10 days through a strange and secretive process. An intrigued Pakistani translator living in London decides to enroll in hopes of propelling her career. She makes friends with the woman who runs the Centre and is pulled into to the fold to learn more about how the process works. It's an engaging Black Mirror rollercoaster of a book!
The main character is a flawed, entitled narcissist. However, I did enjoy much of her social commentary throughout the book. Perhaps her attention to gender, racial, and class inequality will allow her to use her newly acquired skills in less problematic ways, haha. There were a few plot holes that bugged me. Why is Adam's character such a dud after attending the Centre many times? Why didn't Anisa worry about getting murdered at any point??
The main character is a flawed, entitled narcissist. However, I did enjoy much of her social commentary throughout the book. Perhaps her attention to gender, racial, and class inequality will allow her to use her newly acquired skills in less problematic ways, haha. There were a few plot holes that bugged me. Why is Adam's character such a dud after attending the Centre many times? Why didn't Anisa worry about getting murdered at any point??