Aru Shah and the Song of Death by Roshani ChokshiMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Following up on the very first Rick Riordan Presents novel, Roshani Chokshi brings us back to Aru Shah's adventurous world of the magical mayhem of the Hindu pantheon. While the first book was a pretty effective origin story for Aru and Mini as Pandavas, there's still a few more of them to be found...and this book introduces our next Pandava, Brynne, in pretty spectacular fashion, plunging not only Aru and Mini, but we the readers, into the action right from the get-go. And then our favorites have to go on a high-stakes quest that takes them into some pretty soapy shenanigans between the gods and queens of millennia ago. It's a rollicking adventure that does a great job of making End of Time so much past-is-prologue setup for (Han Solo voice) where the fun begins. Two Pandava novels done, and two to go...and let me tell you, the final scene setting up next year's third novel is an unforgettable cliffhanger, and not because it makes you angry the way Uncle Rick's might. No, it's a pretty good "and the adventure continues" varietal, a very welcome sight in these times of the likes of Aveyard and Bardugo and Maas giving waaaaaaay too many angry-making endings in their books...
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