sharonvictoria90 's review for:

Q & A by Vikas Swarup

2.0

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I don't really know what to say. I mean I had to read this for my literature class and so I did. It's sad that the narrator never felt like a real character to me, but his story is okay. I think he told it in too much detail, explaining and telling things that weren't necessary to explain why he knew the answers. And I also find it a bit weird that the author has never been to the places he writes about because that makes it seem as though this is just how he sees India and not at all what it's really like. I don't know it's hard to explain, but it feels as though he wanted to tell a story and felt the need to add much more violence and rape into the mix than was ever necessary to explain the knowing of the answers. (Example: knowing Pluto is the smallest planet because a girl you knew had a cat named Pluto because her dad was an astronomer. Going into detail about how he also felt entitled to his daughter body, raped and burnt her wasn't really necessary to some extent)

I really don't know how to explain my feelings on this book, it's just that I don't recommend it unless you enjoy stories that go into so much detail, you sometimes forget what the heck is going on.