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The Bandit Queens

Parini Shroff

Start date: September 1, 2023

Finish date: November 30, 2023

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Oct 29, 2023 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, twenty-first-century, mystery-thriller, xxkindlerewards2023, women, xx2023-acquisitions

This is shelved variously as Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Thriller. I spent a lot of pages waiting for any of those. It was really only in the last maybe 50 pages that it became thrillerish. By that time, it was obvious the women would prevail so there was really no fear for them.

Instead, this was much more a feminist novel than many I’ve read. Stand up for yourself, learn to be independent, don’t let society define you by your gender are the messages to take from this. I think that is all well a ...more

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Aug 07, 2025 Tobey rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: tbd, 2025

I've had this book in my possession for a long time and while I really like the cover, I can't say that I really enjoyed the book. There was a lot of hype for it and it just didn't reach those expectations for me. It might have been the fact that it was a vastly different class system that surrounded the story. At any rate, I just found it okay. ...more

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Nov 27, 2023 Joanna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, 2023-read, rws-2023-fall

There were moments where I found this book funny or moving. And there were some interesting tidbits about life in a small Indian village. But a lot of the book was so far-fetched that I couldn't quite get into it. And overall, the premise that these women are banding together to murder their annoying husbands felt too heavy for how lightly this was treated. I'm not sorry that I read this, but I'm not going to be pressing it into anyone else's hands. It seems like a book a book club might like--l ...more

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Apr 27, 2023 Katy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery-and-thriller

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Jan 13, 2023 Terri marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Jan 15, 2023 Amy W marked it as to-read

Shelves: tbr-literary, now-1, working-list, zzzzz, next-ten

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Mar 30, 2023 Whitney rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Apr 17, 2023 Krista marked it as to-read

Shelves: audio-library-dwnlded, fiction, debut-book, setting-asia, setting-asia-india, feminism, fiction-award-nominee, abuse, social-commentary, time-2020-2029

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Shelves: fiction-mystery-crime-thriller, biaoc

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Aug 28, 2023 Tanya Patrice rated it really liked it

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Sep 24, 2023 Karen Michele Burns rated it really liked it

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Sep 04, 2023 Deedee marked it as to-read

Shelves: mystery, world-asia-india, literary-fiction-unread, b2, three-word-title, cover-black, literary-fiction, year-2023, p3, cover-black-70-percent