Happy Wednesday!
For the past few days, I have been dealing with a classic Book Nerd Problem of trying to find something to read. I had been looking through my books, and even finding some I forgot I had. While looking at my books, I found a lot that seemed interesting but just wasn't what I wanted to read at the moment. And then this morning, I finally found a book to read,
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi.
It's a middle grade mythology fantasy that follows Aru Shah as she accidentally set free a demon and will now have to find a way to stop it. I've had this book sitting on my bookcase for a few years and I'm just now getting around to read it.
Book: Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava book #1) by Roshani Chokshi
Description:
Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur?
One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. Just a quick light, Aru thinks. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again.
But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them.
The only way to stop the demon is to find the reincarnations of the five legendary Pandava brothers, protagonists of the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata, and journey through the Kingdom of Death. But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all that?