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The Strangler Vine (2014)

by M.J. Carter(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0241146224 (ISBN13: 9780241146224)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Penguin Books UK

series

Avery & Blake

review 1: Any book that has me counting how many pages remain in the same way I might count how many shirts are still to be ironed, can't really get more than 1 or 2 stars. I will give this 3 because the afterword confirms that many of the characters in the book and associated events are historically factual. Sadly, for me, this seemed more like a comic strip adventure that had gone on far too long than an eye-opening account of colonialism and power in India.
review 2: This is a cross between Kipling and one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes stories. And is also an adventure and mystery with a good deal of research backing up the setting in 1830s India. This book paints a picture of a people oppressed by the British East India Company, but our sympathetic heroes eith... moreer know or come to know better the exact parameters of that oppression. Overall, this is an exciting tale that holds us in its thrall, but also educates us about the hazards of colonialism. less

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