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reviewed Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie: Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights (2015, Random House) 2 stars

"From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding novel …

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2 stars

Mhm. Rushdie has written three books that I like very much, and some I can't get warm with. This is one of the latter group. Too abstract for me (late in the book, the jinn are even called abstractions), I couldn't get interested in most characters.
The plot reminded me of DC Comics' 1990s crossover event "Bloodlines" (Rushie himself uses a lot of explicit comic book associations in this book, so this idea may be forgiven), which I didn't care for: Gruesome aliens attacking Earth on a grand scale, with new superheroes born through alien meddling. Plucky individuals and secret plans that I couldn't follow.