What readers think of Honor, plus links to write your own review.

Honor is a perfect book for book clubs. with many challenging themes, such as cultural and religious differences and prejudices, sexism, the question of western superiority and more, discussions are likely to be both lively and lengthy.

the main plot deals with the violent animosity that exists between Muslims and Hindus, resulting in a horrific crime and prompting the main character, a journalist, to return to India, the country she and her family had fled 14 years prior.

Unfortunately, the characters in this story are more central casting than creative innovations. the sub-plots are fairly predictable and often test the credulity of the reader. too often the dialogue seemed plot-driven rather than character based, as if the author needed to make her point, regardless of whether the words spoken were an honest reflection of the person speaking them.

Despite these drawbacks, Honor is an easy book to read and one that makes you think, never a quality to be discounted.

After having read two other books by the author, I admit I was very excited to read an advance copy of Honor. However, this novel did not impress me quite as much. From the first pages, I felt I was reading the writing of a beginning author. But other times the writing reminded me of an author who has written so much about the same subject the words became almost trite. The events that take place in the story were emotionally charged, yet although I empathized with the suffering of the characters, I could not say that I felt emotional while reading the story. It was predictable and difficult to plod through and some of the political statements and inferences were contradictory and transparent. Just average writing from someone who can write better than this.

Although I found the story engaging, sometimes the emotional impact was dulled by the prosaic, almost soap opera like writing. The two main characters were very well developed; however the "secondary" players (not so secondary in the actual story) were less developed making me wonder if this was the point all along: to point out the extreme differences between the haves and have-nots. Smita's rediscovery of home was completely foreseen almost from page one.