Review: Spy in Amber

Spy in Amber by Manohar Malgonkar
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Hmmm!

This is the longest time it took me to read a book of this length, the time it usually takes me to finish a 500+ pages book. Why was that, you might ask. That's because the narration is so choppy that it feels as if it is a poor translation. In a way it is, for it was a screenplay that has been adapted to a novel, hastily I believe. I hate to take a break while reading a book, but in this case I was putting off my kindle every other page. The only thing that made me read this was my weakness of completing the books I start (except for the anthologies).

I'm someone who has been reading 50+ books a year, and yet the narration was so bad that it took me almost 40% of the book for me to get into the groove. The story was okay, it would have been a good movie, I guess. But as a novel it just didn't work. Ohk, lemme conclude this since this is starting to look more like a rambling than a review, but, whatever.

You'd be better off skipping this.

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