Aidan is the boy next door but also hiding a lot of secrets.īrynne is a girl with super physical strength, but emotionally vulnerable and with a complicated family story. Mini continues to be a reluctant rule-breaker, but the dynamic duo are also paired with another team. Of course, there’s the letter of the law and the spirit of the law, and different members of the underworld choose to follow different interpretations.
Plus some of the people they’re battling have the favors of the gods, and Aru and friends don’t get extra help while they’re considered criminals. The underworld apparently operates under the idea of guilty until proven innocent, so even though there’s a picture proving that a malicious doppelganger stole the bow and arrows, not Aru, she still has to quest to clear her name by finding the real thief and retrieving the stolen goods. This installment of the Pandava series introduces two new characters, sidelines some who were main players in the first book (mostly Boo) and involves a lot of courtly intrigue. Aru Shah and the Song of Death by Roshani Chokshi. In order to stop the thief’s horde of heartless zombies, they’ll have to team up with extra-strength Brynne and that unusual guy from across the street. NOTE: This review contains spoilers for the previous book.Īru Shah and her friend Mini are back – and need to clear Aru’s name quick after a thief wearing her form stole the god of love’s bow and arrows. MG fantasy, 381 pages including glossary. Rick Riordan Presents, Disney Hyperion, New York, 2019. She's pretty sure she didn't wish for a new sister, one who looks strangely familiar and claims to be the Sleeper's daughter, like her.Aru's biggest question, though, is why every adult she has loved and trusted so far has failed her.Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava Series #2) by Roshani Chokshi. Aru Shah and her friends are sent on a mission to rescue two targets, one of whom is about to utter a prophecy that cannot reach the ears of villainous the Sleeper.Īru has just made a wish on the tree of wishes, but she can't remember what it was. War between the devas and the demons is imminent, and the Otherworld is on high alert. If she doesn't find the arrow by the next full moon, she'll be kicked out of the Otherworld. If that weren't bad enough, somehow Aru gets framed as the thief. Instead, they're turning people into heartless fighting-machine zombies. The god of love's bow and arrow have gone missing, and the thief isn't playing Cupid. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? Whilst her classmates are jetting off to exotic locales, she'll be at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture where her mother works. Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school.
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