Aru Shah and the End of Time

So this was cute and very well written but I guess I'm not the right audience for it. All in all it was a but too much for those 350 pages. It wanted to be funny so badly that it felt forced and that just made it very hard for me to read, I'm sorry...

This book could have been a four-star-read, because Roshani Chokshi obviously knows how to write and the characters are so funny. But it was one hurdle after another in a constantly shifting environment and I missed constancy of anything. I would have liked to see more of the day-to-day afterward, you know, magic school-like stuff, the training and so on. So maybe I'll read on in hopes of getting this in the second book. Now, if you feel like a fastpaced, witty road-trip through supernatural places of Indian mythology, go ahead and give this one a try! If that was more my pace, I would add a forth star for sure.

This book could have been a four-star-read, because Roshani Chokshi obviously knows how to write and the characters are so funny. But it was one hurdle after another in a constantly shifting environment and I missed constancy of anything. I would have liked to see more of the day-to-day afterward, you know, magic school-like stuff, the training and so on. So maybe I'll read on in hopes of getting this in the second book. Now, if you feel like a fastpaced, witty road-trip through supernatural places of Indian mythology, go ahead and give this one a try! If that was more my pace, I would add a forth star for sure.