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A review by 2treads
Bramah and the Beggar Boy by Renée Sarojini Saklikar
adventurous
dark
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Telling a story that is epic in scope and action and novel length is difficult, especially when it comes to keeping your reader engaged and immersed. In Bramah and the Beggar Boy, Saklikar has committed to trying to accomplish that.
She incorporates changing forms of poetry and uses images, acronyms, reports, drawings, communication and interrogation logs to break up and add to what can get overwhelming.
Her characters strengths and cunning, willingness to sacrifice and survive, as well as to save what they can of what is left of Earth kept me reading, plus I was intrigued at what she is attempting here. She calls this an epic fantasy in verse.
I am right there with the verse and elements of fantasy are there, but I have not yet fallen into the epic or maybe I just need to reprint my definition of epic.
What is clear is the disasters that have ravaged the Earth, leaving the vulnerable even more so and susceptible to exploitation to keep the Consortium running. The resistance that hides in plain sight, the spies and informers, the magic and stories, community and perseverance are all elements that endeared this read to me.
Some poems invited me to finish a line, others gave me rhymes, and still others told tales of adventure and love. A truly unique reading experience.
She incorporates changing forms of poetry and uses images, acronyms, reports, drawings, communication and interrogation logs to break up and add to what can get overwhelming.
Her characters strengths and cunning, willingness to sacrifice and survive, as well as to save what they can of what is left of Earth kept me reading, plus I was intrigued at what she is attempting here. She calls this an epic fantasy in verse.
I am right there with the verse and elements of fantasy are there, but I have not yet fallen into the epic or maybe I just need to reprint my definition of epic.
What is clear is the disasters that have ravaged the Earth, leaving the vulnerable even more so and susceptible to exploitation to keep the Consortium running. The resistance that hides in plain sight, the spies and informers, the magic and stories, community and perseverance are all elements that endeared this read to me.
Some poems invited me to finish a line, others gave me rhymes, and still others told tales of adventure and love. A truly unique reading experience.