A review by shahdhazem
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This was the only book that interested me from Elif's work the idea looked really interesting for me but the execution wasn't that good. First of all this story is really dark so please read the trigger warnings of you're gonna read it because I went it having no idea it was like this and was shook thankfully I don't get triggered but I would've liked a heads up. Let's dive in the book then to be honest the story as a whole was good I just had a problem with how the author chose to tell it also this a kind of a philosophical book and I had a huge problem with the author's beliefs which contradicted mine in many ways which I won't be venturing into right now at all. But if we put aside these which I can because they didn't offense me we can find that this was well written and it drew me in and u kinda understand why many people would like it in my case alot of factors affected my opinion. I won't be reading for her again in the future I wasn't even planning on reading this I read it for a bookclub.
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