After finishing the book and feeling ever so slightly like I wanted to throw it across the room, I sat back down and realized just how much I actually enjoyed this novel. Ghosh's plotting is a bit all over the place and his characters are occasionally mouths for exposition, but the conspiracy, the excitement, the rewriting of history is so well-handled that I could not help but enjoy the ride.

Full disclosure: I read this book for a class on the speculative, so it's difficult to analyze it beyond that context. Still, as a book and as an exciting piece of science-fiction, I really enjoyed it. The end just__�felt rather abrupt and I like fairy-tale-esque closure.