The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

3.5 stars. I wanted to love this book. The premise and concept sounded phenomenal (and it won the Booker!) - I expected something similar to Midnight's Children (one of my favs). However, despite genius moments of humour, horror and revelations, I found it to be very repetitive. It probably could have been a hundred pages shorter. The beginning and the end were 5 stars worthy.