Review: Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

 

Hey look at me reading a new release finally for the year. This was a massive book and I enjoyed it a lot. I am really into mafia, organized crime family type books and this was right up my alley. This is written by an Indian author set in India. We follow a plethora of characters and their plot lines all come together so well. 

We start off with a young boy named Ajay. He accidentally lets his family goat loose and the goat gets into the neighbors spinach. Well the neighbor is completely pissed and demands payment and Ajay's father can't pay, so he gets beaten so severely that he dies. Ajay and his family can't pay for burial or proper cremation and they end up doing a botched cremation and burial. 

Ajays mother ends up selling him and his sister gets taken to a brothel. Ajay grows up and starts working for Sunny Wadia and his father is the famous Bunty Wadia who is feared and respected. During this part of the book, we start getting Sunny's pov and how he wants to make India better and not so sloppy and crappy. He wants the homeless to have homes and stop shitting in the river and polluting the air. He ends up starting a relationship with a journalist named Neda who we also read from and how these two are just so toxic for each other but their relationship would have blossomed into something amazing if not for Sunny's family. 

I enjoyed this book a lot and I would not doubt the author writing another book with these characters or the minor characters and continuing this story espeialy with how the book ended.