A review by ginbat
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

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