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Title: The Satapur MoonstoneAuthor: Sujata Massey
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 384
Rating: 3/5
This is the second book in the Perveen Mistry series.
Summary:
Set in India in the 1920's, Perveen Mistry, one of India's first female lawyers, is called on to travel to the remote Satapur region to help settle a dispute within a royal family.
Review:
I adored the first book in this series (The Widows of Malabar Hill) and although I don't think this second novel quite lives up to the first, I enjoyed this one as well.
I do still love the time period this is set in, as well as the setting; it was fun to move out of Bombay a little bit and be introduced to this remote place and getting to see both palaces and villages. There's a lot of atmosphere being built up just by describing the setting and I thought that was fantastic. I like how this story discusses women and the many restrictions that were put on them during this time and I thought revisiting Perveen was great, I love reading about her.
I don't think this is as strong of a story as we saw in the first book though; I felt like this time we didn't get to dig as deep and a lot of the themes in this book are the same as in the first but it sometimes feels like parts of it are watered down versions of what we saw in the first book.
I did still really enjoy this book though and I'm already looking forward to the release of the third book in this series (which hasn't been confirmed yet but I'm hoping there's going to be another one).
You can read more about it on Goodreads
