The Reading List

The characters in this story were so loveable. I loved both Mukesh and Aleisha, and the side characters you meet throughout, too. They each had something really difficult in their lives – him a recent widower, and her living with a mentally ill mom. And things get harder before they get easier.

The way the author depicts grief I thought was really well done. Both of the main characters are grieving something or someone, and you can see them struggling to find themselves in it and adapt to their worlds.

I also loved the thread of the reading list tying their stories (and side characters) together so closely. It's a little bit of a mystery, because you don't know who made the reading list they find, but the author started weaving in more clues as the story went on. I thought that was a really fun way to make the reveal.

The only thing I didn't love about this book, the thing that took it down from 5 stars to 4, is the ending.

Read my full review: https://literaryquicksand.com/2022/02/review-the-reading-list-by-sara-nisha-adams/