I enjoyed this one! It was easy and fun to just chew through – I started it on the plane, got home, and promptly cracked it back open to finish. It’s a mystery within a mystery and I did enjoy that format for the most part. Head’s up, you mostly finish the first mystery at the halfway point in the book and have to read rest of it to get the answers. Our main character (I think her name is Susan? I can’t remember) is […]
Entertaining, empty calories
This is definitely the book that suffered the most in my “read first, review later” rush last week. Sorry, y’all. I liked it, it just doesn’t stand out for me. Just learned that it’s a debut novel, though, which helps me appreciate it a little more. The Windfall is a story about the haves and the have-lots set in modern New Delhi, and it’s about how little people really change. Mr. Jha has lived his whole life in West Delhi, in the housing complex where […]
There’s just always so much to digest
Book 6! I did it! And before I got book 7 from the library! I have covered before how much I love these books. Grown up me reading these is like teenage me reading the Star Wars expanded universe. This one may have been a bit of a letdown after how much I loved book 5 (don’t ask me the specific title, because that is long gone), but the standard is so high that doesn’t mean much. Still would recommend over and over and over. […]
You’ve read this book before
I only post reviews when I am at a computer and I was traveling for five days sans computer so please pardon me if the books I read start to run together. I think they were all different enough that I should be okay? We’ll find out together. So. Rebel of the Sands. Young adult novel, world in pieces, teenage heroine – we’ve all read this book before. Of the various entries in this particular category, it is one of the better, but it doesn’t really […]