dzavatsky 's review for:

Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi

3.0

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I was really excited to read this book, a Rick Riordan author telling a story of a young heroine with Vedic themes. But even as a person who knows the characters and mythology in the story, I found many of the plot points and reveals confusing and hard to follow. When Aru and Mini would get an object or a clue, it was hard to predict when it would come back to be useful, or remember where it came from when they reference it again hundreds of pages later. Maybe this isn’t a great book to read aloud one chapter at a time - maybe it’s one you have to more deeply absorb - but we had fun reading it.