A review by skele_queen
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

Starts strong, and partially ends in a way I would like if it wasn’t for the slog the final stretch of the book became. The format is enjoyable (especially with the prose, though the scene shifts feel like they would be better in visual media than literary) and it suits the beautiful prose. Some twists were questionable and though I’m fine with things being unresolved plot-wise, being unresolved thematically makes the ending feel weak and the twists themselves unneeded.