16.9k reviews for:

Mille splendidi soli

Khaled Hosseini

4.48 AVERAGE

philecommabiblio's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

hevans998's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jbell213's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

bubbelfia's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional informative reflective sad

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

nisha_reads's review against another edition

5.0

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this book is devastating. it is beautifully written. it will make you cry.

read it !

love_inthelibrary's review against another edition

4.0

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This book is compelling and beautiful, and much less bleak or traumatic than The Kite Runner. It's more delicate, maybe because the main characters are women. It's so good that it transcends my fatigue regarding immersion into the Islamic culture. It gets to the inherent humanity, though I do tire of the violence and misogynistic themes that dominate these stories (and culture). Just as I cannot bear to read one more historical fiction set in the Spanish Inquisition, it's horrors are incomprehensible that explaining them a million ways only demonstrates futility. I will never get it. And while a book this good can make me see past it, it's like looking through a window in a wall I can never climb over.

kittylaloo's review against another edition

3.0

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This was a better book, in my opinion, than "Kite Runner", perhaps due to the nature of the characters and the trials and tribulations facing women in Middle Eastern countries.

asallevato's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

lilli_29's review against another edition

4.0

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4.5

lzepeda's review against another edition

5.0

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