LitPick Review
A young boy named Akash loses his Bapu (father). Then, Akash's Daddima (grandmother, father's side) orders him to go work for the land owner to pay off his family's debts, but Akash realizes that the amount of work he does is unimportant, because he will never be able to earn enough money. Akash escapes to Delphi to seek an education. There, he learns to live as an orphan at the train station. Through a series of lucky events, Akash finds that soon, he will be living out his dream- attending a city boy's school.
Opinion:
I did not really like this book because although it did have an adventurous plot, it just did not seem like my kind of plot. It was a common 12-year old, living out ordinary events, such as sleeping on rooftops, selling drugs, ect. Also, although I understood how the end was - well, an end, it just sort of dropped off suddenly. I think if there were an epilogue it would be better, but this book would do best in a three or four book series.
