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A review by terrypaulpearce
Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree
1.0
DNF.
I should've read beyond the first page before deciding to pick this up. I enjoyed its literary flourishes and clever play with language, but I was expecting that those flourishes would embellish a story. After 50+ pages and a flick through the remainder, it seems to be flourishes all the way down, and for me I had to work much, much too hard to maintain any sense of story or flow. It's more like a 700-page poem. If that's your bag, check this out, but for me I just found myself having to re-read passage after passage, trying to make things make sense.
I should've read beyond the first page before deciding to pick this up. I enjoyed its literary flourishes and clever play with language, but I was expecting that those flourishes would embellish a story. After 50+ pages and a flick through the remainder, it seems to be flourishes all the way down, and for me I had to work much, much too hard to maintain any sense of story or flow. It's more like a 700-page poem. If that's your bag, check this out, but for me I just found myself having to re-read passage after passage, trying to make things make sense.