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A review by madelinedalton
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
Did not finish book. Stopped at 64%.
I wanted to love this and tried to trudge through for over a week, but in the end, I just couldn’t do it. I found myself constantly skimming pages, which isn’t a great sign.
My main criticism of the book is that the characters feel very hollow. I don’t feel like I have a great sense of who they are as people—they are vessels to carry the plot and political turmoil along, and the plot itself is quite slow.
To be completely fair to the author, I have been in a reading slump for months and don’t have the mental capacity for books about heavy, complex topics like this one.
My main criticism of the book is that the characters feel very hollow. I don’t feel like I have a great sense of who they are as people—they are vessels to carry the plot and political turmoil along, and the plot itself is quite slow.
To be completely fair to the author, I have been in a reading slump for months and don’t have the mental capacity for books about heavy, complex topics like this one.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Islamophobia, Trafficking, and Colonisation
Minor: Fatphobia and Antisemitism