3.5 stars
R- 2
copy received for review
I enjoyed the blend of past and "present" (the character's present, not ours) but the time period didn't feel like quite as much of a "presence" as I maybe wanted.
In some ways the story could have taken place anytime/anyplace.
Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but in a historical fiction set in India during partition and the subsequent mess, a little more of that might have been nice.
Overall, this maybe wasn't so much my style, but I did end up enjoying it. An interesting tale of love lost but still with a hopeful ending.
I finished this today...I liked it a lot more than I thought I would...I agree about the sense of time, it wasn't rooted in anything specific. I thought she turned a typical "forbidden love" story, though, into a fairly intense drama. And I thought she excelled, specifically, when writing about the pain, suffering and grieving of a mother giving a child up for adoption. That was particularly powerful.
ReplyDeleteYes, that aspect of the story was really well-done.
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