Petra It's a year now, still in a dark place's Reviews > Sea of Poppies

If I had known this book was the first part of a trilogy - the other books as yet unwritten - and that the book was not complete unto itself, in other words, this saga is a serial rather than a series, I would probably not have bought it. And then I would have missed a book interesting for its historical period (the Opium Wars with China) about which I knew nothing, for its finely-drawn characters and general good-all-round storytelling.

This is really a 5-star book, but I am only giving it 4-stars because any serious review would be a spoiler, and this book is so good I wouldn't want to do that, and because I am pissed off at the author for finishing the story quite arbitarily and without having published the next chapter, the next book in the trilogy. All I can say to Amitav Ghosh, is hurry up man, I'm waiting, what happens next???