A review by norahs_reading_room
The Elephant Keeper's Daughter by Deborah Rachel Langton, Julia Drosten

4.0

This book was a joy to read. I have actually been to Kandy and inside the Temple of the Tooth which made the descriptions of these places very real. Parts of the book seemed aimed at a YA audience and then other parts were definitely not as they quite graphically described the atrocities of war. Sometimes it felt like the book just skimmed over details and the narrative could have been more developed in places. The story is quite predictable and the characters were fairly two-dimensional but the story still managed to wrap itself around me. I keep downgrading this to a 3-star review then changing my mind back to a 4-star one, lol.