Second book from Alka Joshi.
Lakshmi is now married to Dr Jay Kumar and directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. It's the spring of 1969 and Malik is a 20 year old young man, finished his schooling and sent to apprentice in the Pink City of his childhood as an apprentice to learn architecture with some old faces from the first book. But he leaves behind a widow whom he has been stepping out with. Political intrigue, money and old battles still roam the streets and Malik will have to navigate them all to sharpen his old skills.
I enjoyed this one, maybe not as much as the first one but enough that I could finish this one fairly quickly. You do still read quite a bit of Lakshmi but the bulk of the story is from Malik and his love interests point of view. I will say I was very pleased that the author noted but did not go into great detail important points from the first book that related to this story. They were short reminders to the reader on those points and if you haven't read the first book, then good little short points to bring you up to speed.
Recommend. Can almost read as a stand alone.
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