A review by oliviahoffmann
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

3.0

3.5. I really liked this book for the most part. I thought the descriptive writing was beautiful and the characters well thought out. I didn’t particularly love the convenient run ins of different animals with the fig tree that seemed to just move the story along (i.e by telling where the baby was buried). I also wish Ada was told a little bit more about her family’s past, because we got the whole story but it doesn’t seem she does by the end of the book. I do like the idea of reincarnation of Dephne as the fig tree, but also felt like it was kind of thrown in at the end