A Chola Adventure by Anu Kumar || Book Review

Rating: ⭐⭐ ~2.5 stars~

I had some very high expectations for this but not sure whether if it fulfilled all of it.

Plot:

This story takes place in 990 CE, Tanjore or Thanjavur, India

It's about Twelve-year-old Raji who is a girl of spirit---brave, bright and bold. She is also a dancer, a warrior and a sculptor. But she misses her mother, who a wonderful dancer, has been sent to exile for a crime she didn't commit and her father has left home in grief.

Unexpectedly, Raji recuses a Chinese traveler sets off a chain of events. A Shiva statue goes missing, a prince disappears and the priest is murdered inside a temple. Raji and her friends, prince Rajendra Chola and his cousin, Ananta try to solve the mystery happening in their kingdom.

The plot is  interesting which makes you want to keep reading. But its engagingness ( if that's a word ) drops at the end like the author lost interest.

But it was really fast-paced, like really fast-paced. I couldn't understand a few things and the ending, It was so frustrating that there wasn't a proper ending at all. I had to literally push myself to see finish this book and there was no (proper?) epilogue.

But I really liked the historical details given at the end of the book.

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