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Dec 20, 2016
Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂
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3.5★
When I finish my own review, I'm going to find & like the review where the reviewer packed it in about 160 pages from the finish. & I'm writing"like" when I mean applaud. This novel was more of an epic struggle than an enjoyable experience. 960 pages or not, I'm a fast, avid reader. No book should take me four months to read.
My reading progress really does the work of a review!
When I finish my own review, I'm going to find & like the review where the reviewer packed it in about 160 pages from the finish. & I'm writing"like" when I mean applaud. This novel was more of an epic struggle than an enjoyable experience. 960 pages or not, I'm a fast, avid reader. No book should take me four months to read.
My reading progress really does the work of a review!
READING PROGRESS...more
08/21 page 42 4.0% "Instantly enthralled!"
08/25 page 97 10.0% "OK, I'm ready for Ash's childho

I finished it!!!!
I'm not even going to try to summarize this, enough readers have already done so and to be honest, it's so huge, so SO HUGE that I wouldn't even know where to start. Only that it's about a man born without the comfort of national borders, trying to find where he belongs in this world, and a half caste girl, a princess, who would give her life to find it with him.
I loved it. I lived it. I feel like I've died a thousand deaths over the last two weeks reading it.
If you haven't alre ...more
I'm not even going to try to summarize this, enough readers have already done so and to be honest, it's so huge, so SO HUGE that I wouldn't even know where to start. Only that it's about a man born without the comfort of national borders, trying to find where he belongs in this world, and a half caste girl, a princess, who would give her life to find it with him.
I loved it. I lived it. I feel like I've died a thousand deaths over the last two weeks reading it.
If you haven't alre ...more

A perfect novel. It is hard to believe but through all these pages I wasn't bored, I wasn't overwhelmed, I hadn't enough.
I will try to explain why it was so marvelous but I am sure I will fail to list all reasons.
1) A fascinating historical background.
I didn't know very much about India (especially its history and culture) and Afganistan. This book was a phenomenal journey through those countries in the second half of the XIX century. What was even greater was that not only big events were true ...more
I will try to explain why it was so marvelous but I am sure I will fail to list all reasons.
1) A fascinating historical background.
I didn't know very much about India (especially its history and culture) and Afganistan. This book was a phenomenal journey through those countries in the second half of the XIX century. What was even greater was that not only big events were true ...more

I can't even think where to begin in a review for this, I barely know what to rate it.
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