A review by kitnotmarlowe
The Silence of Scheherazade by Defne Suman

Did not finish book. Stopped at 12%.
Absolutely could not stand the writing style. I'm not sure if it's an issue with translation or with the original text, but it flows so unnaturally. The syntax is all over the place; subjects and objects sprinkled willy-nilly throughout the text. Each sentence is filled to the prim with names and details which fail at any semblence of word building because half the time they're irrelevant to the greater story or even the rest of the page. Smyrna isn't a place, or even a specific moment in time, it's a jumble of words thrown at a wall like spaghetti.