Against the Loveless World follows the dark and poignant story of Nahr who sits in an Israeli prison cell and recounts how she got there. She is born Against the Loveless World follows the dark and poignant story of Nahr who sits in an Israeli prison cell and recounts how she got there. She is born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugees and eventually makes her way back to Palestine. I haven’t read many story of refugees and I thought Abulhawa did a great job in capturing the voices of the women she had interviewed. Mixing fiction and facts, Nahr is based off multiple women in one so while I do think she was interesting, I felt her character was a bit too convoluted. The chapters are extremely long and that is just a personal annoyance of mine. In my opinion, these long chapters made me feel as thought the plot slowed down very much and I felt less invested, which deeply saddens me because I wanted to love this. I do absolutely love cover and the title as well, fits so perfectly. Nahr just wants to find love while world seemingly has none to give her.
Thank you to Netgalley and to Atria books for the copy of this book....more
The first 50% of this book bored me. It just felt like random drama that I didn’t care about but by the time I reached the end, Daisy Jones & The Six The first 50% of this book bored me. It just felt like random drama that I didn’t care about but by the time I reached the end, Daisy Jones & The Six felt like a real band. I was disappointed I couldn’t listen to their songs afterwards. I will admit the last part of the book made me cry and I was surprised at what happened because I totally thought something else would happen and that is my spoiler free explanation. I loved Camila and Karen, both were strong women who stood up for themselves and put up with people’s shit. The men kind of blurred together as one to me except for Billy.
I would recommend reading this through the audiobook, the casting is phenomenal and they did such a great job. I don’t know if I could’ve gotten through the book otherwise. ...more
I read this book because I was interested in reading a historical fiction novel set in the spanish Civil War.. I was deeply disappointed. I thought thI read this book because I was interested in reading a historical fiction novel set in the spanish Civil War.. I was deeply disappointed. I thought this was going to be a 5 star book for me and I'd be able to add it onto my favorites shelf. The whole book consists of just description of what’s happening, completely lacking any dialogue. I’ve read history texts books with more life and feeling than this. I just was bored and forced myself through because I try to limit myself on DNF and I'm glad I didn’t. i cared enough to want to know what would happen with Victor and Roser. Still disappointed though....more
Update October 23,2020: after discussing this book with my friend who is currently reading it, I realized my 2 stars were far too generous and I actuaUpdate October 23,2020: after discussing this book with my friend who is currently reading it, I realized my 2 stars were far too generous and I actually really hated this book.
April 9th 2020: Not really what I expected. I was bored most of the time and I found Vivian extremely boring, I'm too bored to even give a proper review....more
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