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tboz's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: War
kdvperez's review against another edition
4.0
Harrowing yet steadfastly hopeful.
I’m a sucker for the “people in the community helping main characters from the kindness of their hearts” trope. And in this case, it’s even better because it happened in real life.
Faith in humanity restored.
I’m a sucker for the “people in the community helping main characters from the kindness of their hearts” trope. And in this case, it’s even better because it happened in real life.
Faith in humanity restored.
sophward's review against another edition
4.0
Najaf's story is fascinating and at times tragic, but altogether uplifting. I really enjoyed reading this.
emmaaxtco's review
3.0
As is probably obvious in the fact I slowly read this book over 2 months, it failed to hold my interest for long. Such a shame because I really admire this man and while his actual story was incredibly interesting to me, this book somehow didn’t quite do it justice. I’m so happy to have this insight into the life of a refugee and feel better informed and more compassionate as a result. I wish I’d been able to focus on the book a bit better because I did really like it and Najaf.
sambuttigieg's review
1.0
While the book was well written, I just found it very difficult to finish. This book just simply didn’t peak my interest unfortunately :(
allonsythornraxx's review
2.0
This isn't really my kind of book but I thought it was a very interesting eye-opener
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