The Mountain of Light is a very interesting book, a work of historical fiction about the Kohinoor diamond. The first two hundred pages read like historical fiction, but then there's a brief suspense/thriller passage. The book returns to historical fiction to finish the tale.Sundaresan does a lovely ...
So I knew absolutely nothing about Mehrunnisa before reading this book. I didn’t even know that her niece was the woman the Taj Mahal was built for. Thanks to this book, I know want to know more about Mehrunnisa. If one is looking at this book objectively, there i...
The Mountain of Light is a very interesting book, a work of historical fiction about the Kohinoor diamond. The first two hundred pages read like historical fiction, but then there's a brief suspense/thriller passage. The book returns to historical fiction to finish the tale.Sundaresan does a lovely ...
I have listened to the entire audiobook.ME, I deserve four stars for doing this, but I award the book only two.I think it proper to award two stars rather than one simply because I did learn about the Mughal Empire – historical facts, customs and way of life. ****************************** I have ...
I was recommended this by a friend, who I will be forever grateful towards, because this is a fantastic book that I otherwise might not have come across. It is set in 16th and 17th Century India whist under the rule of the Mughal Empire. I do not know a great deal about this period of history and so...
Every so often, you'll find a gem in the bargain books section of a bookstore. So it was with The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan, a novel based on actual events in the history of the Mughal Empire of India.::: The Plot :::Ghias Beg flees from Persia after his father's estates revert to the govern...
Loved this even more the 2nd time around.
I first read this book when it came out in 2003. The copy in the library was nice and fresh and just waiting to be cracked open. I fell in love from the first page. Over the years, I still had beautiful images from the book playing in my head. When asked to recommend a book this was usually my top p...
What can I say? I really wanted to like this book, but it just fell flat for me. The setting is wonderfully created, and the story is based in fact, two things that usually make a HF novel work for me, but this one was -- well, lifeless. I could not get into it at all, and when it ended, well, I was...
While I really enjoyed the premise of this one -- set in sixteenth century India of the Moghul emperors, and in particular, Shah Jehangir and his wife, Mehunrissa. But the downside was that the characters are rather flat, and the writing style simplistic. In the end, just three and a half stars. But...
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