A review by meeryluv
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

challenging dark emotional sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

Starts to lag around the 3/4th mark then plummets into such a tender ending. My only qualm is that there's only so many times you can allude to an event before actually telling us what it is. The payoff to narrating that event tho was tremendous, you truly experience love. All of Ammu's insecurities and how holy they seem to Velutha. It makes me believe in love. Some of diction or wordplay introduced especially around the twins was difficult to follow at times, almost as if the author was playing a game we weren't privy to. Reading those lines (which are constantly repeated like a cheeky refrain) felt a bit isolating. Also I knew that the twins were going to have sex and I hate that they did why is sex the only way to "resolve" feelings or trauma girl come on. Incest plotlines r contrived and overdone buss bohot ho gaya. I've started reading an influx of books centered around motherhood and surprisingly this was one of them? Even though I had not accounted for that at all