Bombay Ice

By Leslie Forbes

Book Overview

Rosalind Bengal is a radio journalist and producer for true-crime TV. After years in London, she still wakes with the cinnamon taste of cassia leaves in her mouth, a dream from her childhood in India... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553380478
• ISBN13: 9780553380477
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

exciting read

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I found it to be an engaging and exciting read. The blend of the main character's relationships and the bollywood characters was fun and fascinating. I think it is interesting that there seems to be a good deal readers who did not find the wonders some of us did in this book. I loved this book but found her other book horribly tedious and boring and could not finish it. But I reccomend this one to everyone I encounter, I loved it so much! go figure.

The first book I've *finished* in years.

Oh my. Let's see. . .Each time I set down "Bombay Ice", I couldn't stop thinking about it! It was all I could do to keep myself from toting it along where ever I went. Actually, I think I brought it to a restaurant once. It's truly an addicting read. Rosalind is such an amazing heroine; compassionate yet strong, she's unyielding in her pursuit for "truth". Remarkably clever, Bombay Ice manages to portray an Indian atmosphere so real that I actually felt as if I had stepped into the novel. Also, there's enough content in this novel to make it worth reading a second time.

Absorbing. Leslie Forbes really captures Bombay.

A well-written absorbing book. Leslie Forbes seems to have a real feel for Bombay and the subcultures of Bollywood and the hijras (transvestites/ eunuchs).

A mystery set around "Bollywood" and as spicy as curry.

This is an over-the-top novel of mystery, history, and drama starring a female, freelance crime reporter churned together into a curry of "Bollywood" and lore of India. If you like a complex mystery that invites multiple readings to fully enjoy it, you'll love this novel; otherwise, read "Season of the Monsoon" by Paul Mann which presents another view of Bollywood and India and a good mystery, too.

Absolutely Fantastic Book

This book involved me so much, on so many different levels, that the characters continued on in my dreams for several nights. Everything about this book is fantastic; plot, characters, setting, motifs, etc. If you like your books uni-dimensional and simple, then this is not the book for you. However, if you enjoy multi-faceted books that can engage your intellect, humor, feelings, senses and taste for adventure, then this is a must-read. Highly, highly recommended!