Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

19 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

s3lin's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Abandonment

Moderate: Ableism and Death

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

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

natanidae's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility and Abandonment

Minor: Child death and Suicide attempt

ciara288's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This is an incredible book. It broke my heart every chapter and I was grateful for it. I immediately want to pick it up and start again. 
Khaled Hosseini is one of the best writers I have ever read. I have read too many people saying that all his books are the same but I could never get tired of the way he writes, and I feel like white writers never get the same criticism. People say write what you know, and you can feel how well he knows what he’s writing about. I could feel every emotion through the pages, I could envisage the Afghanistan in his mind. It made me think about my privilege and how lucky I am, whilst also acknowledging my own sorrows and the terrible state of this world.
I have read people saying that they liked this book less, that they didn’t connect to all the characters but I feel like I just felt everything for even more characters. I feel like I could’ve cried at every chapter, each character came through so strongly. I would advise people to go in expecting 9 interconnected short stories instead of 1 story but I don’t think the book is any worse for it, in fact it might even be more valuable for it for me. Writing this now I am still thinking about all the incredible details, all of the heartbreaking moments and I am just in awe of Khaled Hosseini. Everyone should read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Abandonment

Moderate: Murder