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Title: Definitely overwritten
Review: I loved Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart, so I was delighted to discover there was a sequel. However, The Vine of Desire simply does not compare to Sister of My Heart. My main complaint is that Divakaruni has taken the utterly loveable and pure characters of Anju and Sudha, and used what I consider gimmicky writing to tell the continuation of their story (among the gimmicks are letters, Anju's essays, baby Dayita's thoughts, and "what I said" and "what I didn't say" chapters). The book felt very unnatural to me; the forced styles put too much in the way of the reader and the characters. Reading it reminded me of high school writing assignments where doing something "original" (like writing a screenplay or poem instead of the assigned essay) was considered "cool". In The Vine of Desire, however, Divakaruni just couldn't pull it off.
