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The pacing is slow in this one. Moments of interest but also moments of boredom. Don’t want to say it’s a slog, but there are moments… My weakest Ishiguro to date. Also not sure where it’s going or what I’m supposed to be taking from this yet. It has 60 pages left to stick the landing. Let’s see.

Harkness once again raised interesting stakes to start and once again they’ve vanished and I’ve no clue where it’s going now or what the point is. Why are we spending a whole chapter on wedding that, as far as I can see, serves not purpose to the plot. I blame Harkness but also her editor. Go back to the interesting stuff, not this filler.

Entirely gripped. Magical and page-turning. Harkness is a wonderful writer too BUT in serious need of an editor. You do not need to list every item you put into suitcase, describe every jumper you wear, and the minutiae of every course of a 3 course meal. Also slightly too much telling rather than showing imo.

Struggling with this, possibly due to being a ‘modern’ reader. There’s very little plot but it’s also not ‘slice of life’ but rather a novel built of random tangents, some of which are funny but most of which, unfortunately, are somewhat boring.

It’s good but there’s a notable lack of imagery or visual description. As someone familiar with Hindu mythology and India, I’m fine - but for someone unfamiliar, I expect this would leave something to be desired.