A review by lezreadalot
Haroun And The Sea Of Stories by Salman Rushdie

3.0

The real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

This was fun! And I'm honestly kinda surprised about that. This was my first time reading from Rushdie, and somehow I expected that the tone of this would be more sombre, even though it's YA/middle grade? But this was a whimsical little adventure about a boy and his father who loves to tell stories, the journey they go on and the people/creatures they meet. Lots of wordplay and puns, a little silly in places, but intentionally so. It was also super frank, and had a lot of real world parallels. Admittedly, I didn't particularly love anything about this, and parts of it did kinda make me roll my eyes, but overall, this was kind of a nice surprise.