A review by georgina_bawden
Ponti by Sharlene Teo

3.0

This was pretty good. Enjoyable in parts but slightly lacking as a whole I felt - not a great deal of depth and the ending was a bit flat. The depiction of an awkward and slightly hateful relationship between two sixteen year old girls was very well done. I really liked the character of Circe, who was a sort of former spoiled brat turned listless divorcee and I am sad we didn't get more time with her as an adult because she really sparked off the page. Szu was listless as a depressed teen in a way that felt very sad and true but also made her hard to read. Amisa's sections in the third person were less compelling. I wish it had been longer - I wanted to see some of adult Szu and Circe interacting and it feels half finished that we didn't.