Midnight at Malabar House

This was absolute trashfire.
First of all, the writer was born in the UK so his views on the hatred that Pakistan and India harbour towards each other being stupid, are invalid. The main character's mother dying in a rally and her just accepting it as her mother being a victim of “circumstance” rather than the fault of the British, is just infuriating. Also the protagonist just ended up liking a white boy, the fuck?
Secondly, the writer is a male and 9/10 times male authors cannot writer female characters for the life of them. The only two categories of women to them are either “pick- me's” or “whores”. This was another one of the cases. And the main character being a woman...well you can just guess how it played out.
Thirdly, 95% of the characters were overweight. The writer conveniently made all of the problematic characters overweight.
The only redeeming quality this book had was that it was easy to read and fast paced. Only slightly better than the Midnight Club.

Two and a half stars? I really disliked it. We follow a thoroughly unlikeable protagonist, who throughout the whole book doesn't seem to care about another human being as she fumbles through a murder investigation. As we follow her, we gain access to to her thought, which include such pearls as ‘colonialism- bad', ‘women can be police officers', and my favorite ‘poor people shouldn't have children'
Oh, and the last 50 pages is the author explaining the events of the book like 3 times
I really don't understand the rating