

(And that was a silly thought for me to have after reading To Night Owl From Dogfish that’s told entirely through emails between the characters.) It was such a fun, hilarious, entertaining read.


At first, I thought it would be boring and tiresome since it quickly became obvious that the entire story would be told by phone conversation between the characters. I had no idea what to expect when I started listening to this story.

But Usha trusts her instincts despite what her husband says and Pallavi believes and follows them to save Pallavi. This, however, confuses Pallavi and places a strain on her relationship with her mother. But when Pallavi finds such a guy, her mother gets a bad feeling about him and urges her daughter not to pursue a relationship with the guy. Her mother, Usha, keeps pestering her daughter to marry and often tries to set up Pallavi with a good, well-connected Indian man. She talks to her mother, who’s in India, daily. Pallavi, the daughter, lives in California as an aspiring writer. In Madhuri Shekar’s ingenious Evil Eye, hilarious back-and-forth via phone and social media takes a shocking, supernatural twist when Pallavi meets the perfect man – leading to a climactic showdown that will leave listeners on the edges of their seats. Her mother, Usha, is thousands of miles away in Delhi – and obsessed with finding her daughter a husband. Pallavi is an aspiring writer living in California. I didn’t know what they were and didn’t care, but Evil Eye convinced me otherwise. Until I listened to Evil Eye, I’d avoided the Originals. My plan was to get all the Harry Potter ones and then cancel my account, but sometimes when I want something to listen to, it has a long wait list at the library, so for now I still have my Audible account and with it the Originals - I get 2 Audible Original productions per month for free. I get some of my audio books through Audible, mostly Harry Potter, Wheel of Time, and other audios of books I’ve already read.
