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The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

4 reviews

rafri's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder, Drug use, and Gore

Moderate: Slavery, Racial slurs, and Hate crime

Minor: Kidnapping and Death of parent

third_bookworm's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

2.0

Interesting worldbuilding concept, but the main characters were annoying, the plot was formulaic, and the writing was mediocre. Would have been much improved by a better editor, there were multiple typos and several irritating stylistic choices.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Blood, Racism, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Slavery

applejacksbooks's review

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

4.25

I really thought this was a strong opening book to this series and I can't wait to see what comes next in it. 

The Final Strife presents itself as a Middle East/African inspired world that combines a premises like The Hunger Games with Red Queen to create a terrible world on the precipice of change. 

Anoor and Sylah are some of my favorite characters I've read this year and I love that they give each other hope and the ability to believe in themselves and the world they've lived in and can change it for the better. 

I do think that the middle of this book lagged a little bit, but not enough to make me want to stop reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Death, Grief, Racial slurs, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

burstofhope's review

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Confinement

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, Violence, Racial slurs, Slavery, Racism, and Alcohol

Minor: Abandonment, Ableism, Self harm, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Colonisation, Classism, Sexual content, Hate crime, Death, and Child death