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A review by libeerian
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed
3.0
Free advance copy provided from the publisher via Netgalley.
This one had me a little perplexed. It started off seeming very much like a love-triangle romance between Khayyam, her (ex-)boyfriend and Alexandre Dumas, the hot Parisian descendant of the writer Alexandre Dumas. But at a certain point it switches to a Dan Brown/National Treasure-esque hunt for clues and documents about a women from the 1800s that inspired art by a variety of well-known people, incorporating some (valid) points about women historically taking the backseat to men in the collective memory of society.
If that sounds like a confusing mish-mash, that was pretty much how I was feeling while reading the book. The writing is excellent, but Khayyam's character was very inconsistent and the plot was just too outrageous at times. An interesting attempt, but not one that paid off.
This one had me a little perplexed. It started off seeming very much like a love-triangle romance between Khayyam, her (ex-)boyfriend and Alexandre Dumas, the hot Parisian descendant of the writer Alexandre Dumas. But at a certain point it switches to a Dan Brown/National Treasure-esque hunt for clues and documents about a women from the 1800s that inspired art by a variety of well-known people, incorporating some (valid) points about women historically taking the backseat to men in the collective memory of society.
If that sounds like a confusing mish-mash, that was pretty much how I was feeling while reading the book. The writing is excellent, but Khayyam's character was very inconsistent and the plot was just too outrageous at times. An interesting attempt, but not one that paid off.