Gregory’s review of A Guardian and a Thief > Likes and Comments
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My thoughts exactly, I was disappointed.
Same! Super disappointing. Felt emotionally manipulative with all the contrived tragedy.
Completely agree! Those who rated highly seem to have all stated they were given a free copy in exchange for their review! Very much disliked this weakly written book! Don't bother!
I did not love it / the author should have given the reader some hope and a better ending.
This was spot on. I was wondering if it was just me!
Agree! Thought I was the only one who didn’t like it. Just depressing - hard to find any real message in all the awful things happening.
I came to find this review, apart from that ending what seriously bothered me was the lack of communication Ma had with Baba. What was the need to lie on last conversation I could not understand.
"disallows any sense of hope"
That's it exactly! To write this kind of novel, I feel like you'd have to actively, conscious you exclude anything hopeful. Majumdar's thesis has been done over and over to the point of cliche ever since Lord of the Flies. Golding's exact story was disproven in 1965 by a group of shipwrecked boys from Tonga, but that doesn't stop novelists from treating it like something new and profound.
I screenshot this to send to my husband. "Someone agrees with me!!"
Wish there was a way to like these comments. Thank you for voicing what I was feeling as I read.
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Nov 15, 2025 01:29PM
My thoughts exactly, I was disappointed.
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Same! Super disappointing. Felt emotionally manipulative with all the contrived tragedy.
Completely agree! Those who rated highly seem to have all stated they were given a free copy in exchange for their review! Very much disliked this weakly written book! Don't bother!
I did not love it / the author should have given the reader some hope and a better ending.
This was spot on. I was wondering if it was just me!
Agree! Thought I was the only one who didn’t like it. Just depressing - hard to find any real message in all the awful things happening.
I came to find this review, apart from that ending what seriously bothered me was the lack of communication Ma had with Baba. What was the need to lie on last conversation I could not understand.
"disallows any sense of hope"That's it exactly! To write this kind of novel, I feel like you'd have to actively, conscious you exclude anything hopeful. Majumdar's thesis has been done over and over to the point of cliche ever since Lord of the Flies. Golding's exact story was disproven in 1965 by a group of shipwrecked boys from Tonga, but that doesn't stop novelists from treating it like something new and profound.
I screenshot this to send to my husband. "Someone agrees with me!!"
Wish there was a way to like these comments. Thank you for voicing what I was feeling as I read.
