The Speech of Angels

I expected to like this. The premise was appealing, the main character interesting, the Bombay slums fascinating. Some marginal spoilers sneak in below - fair warning?

It wasn't carried off, and for me, it was a let down.
The characters came across as shallow, most of them were annoying and it wasn't possible to sympathise with them at the relevant times in the story.

The sections of the story in India were enjoyable enough, and therefore the book started ok, but I couldn't bond with Jack and Monika as characters. I also felt the novel was very feminine in its approach - I don't really know how to explain it more than that, but I suspect the target audience is not me! It probably didn't help that the four of the five male characters were not particularly high in moral character.

Unfortunately there were also a lot of typos in this edition - around about 8 that jumped out at me, which I find really distracting in a novel.

Unfortunately doesn't make 3, only managing 2.