A review by samiaakthar
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

dark emotional sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

"for you a thousand times over" oml i have not cried this much in ages. the way the book starts with hassan saying it to amir n ends with amir saying it to sohrab 🥹 "there is a way to be good again" this book broke my heart in so many ways. hassans story broke my heart n my jaw dropped when i found out they were brothers 😦 like real blood brothers. sohrabs whole entire story hurt. it was like gut wrenchingly painful. his entire family was killed n the second i heard that the orphanage sold him i js knew. i knew but i still was not prepared at all. and the fact that the talib was assef. assef was so filthy. he raped hassan when hassan was only 12. and sohrab was a kid. a literal kid yet the talibs raped him multiple times. they claim to be muslim and do everything in the name of Allah (SWT) but it was so filthy. and amirs acceptance of islam was so well written.
khaled hosseini was he man you are 🙏 broke my heart right into two.
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