Reviews tagging 'War'

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

23 reviews

ginbat's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Hosseini's writing always has a poetic feeling to it, I would say this book is of course more "enjoyable" than The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns if only because our characters are not subject to the same amount of violence. This story is more.. Floaty? The only thing keeping it from 5 stars is that the ending feels too much like ATSS.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Child death

Adoption trauma

justagirlwithbooks's review against another edition

slow-paced

4.0

 “Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.” 

The author was experimenting with his writing style, and I kinda vibed with it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Dementia, and War

tahsintries's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

Minor: Homophobia, Suicide, and War

bandysbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Khaled Hosseini is an incredibly talented author, so it's pretty much a given for me that I'm always going to like his books. That being said, I didn't love And The Mountains Echoed in the same way that I've loved some of his other books. It is definitely good and I don't want to put anyone off reading it. It just was slightly less impactful for me.

Some of the things that I did love about this particular story was the way that Hosseini uses traditional Middle Eastern storytelling as a reference point for the majority of the book. The story of the Djinn at the beginning really sets the expectations of what is to come. 

What follows is the story of Abdullah and Pari as they grow apart over the years. Abdullah is a loving older brother, one who dutifully protects his younger sister. Though he loves her deeply, he isn't able to protect her from the poverty they both live in. The story that follows is sad, reflective, and shows how love can stay strong over decades.

All in all, if you've liked Hosseini's previous books, you should absolutely read this one as well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War

annavk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and War

Moderate: Infertility, Misogyny, and Terminal illness

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Dementia, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Child death

Minor: Excrement

odyssia's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

A brilliantly crafted book, drawing together different strands to build a story with two siblings from Afghanistan at its core. I found every strand interesting in isolation and each helped to understand a different aspect of the whole story, including the reasons behind certain characters' actions and mentalities. Moving without being excessively tragic with little flourishes that added tenderness.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Abortion, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

abominablesnowaro's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

shoohoob's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

The first half of the book? Immaculate, stunning, heart breaking, beautifully written. 

The second half? a little slower and harder to push through. Most of it is building characters while the first half is plot. I found it a bit hard to read at times. 

All in all? Khaled Hosseini could write a grocery list and I would eat it up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Kidnapping, and War

Minor: Cancer and Sexual content

azalia's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide, and Abandonment

Minor: War