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The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

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audenaddy's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

kowai_mangl's review against another edition

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sad medium-paced

4.0

bookchaise's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

My first from this author and my first time reading a book about Iranian culture. This is a bittersweet book. A slow burn but packs a big punch. I enjoyed this book as it touches on a lot of relevant topics both in the past and in the present. If you’re looking for a different kind of historical fiction with bittersweet romance (my favorite kind), put this on your TBR!

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4.0

4.50 ⭐️

Една от най-добрите романтични книги, които съм чела. Толкова трагична, на моменти сърцето ми се късаше.

stefappleton's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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minhha_reads's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

challe232's review against another edition

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5.0

The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali takes place mainly in Tehran in the 1950’s and also covers the political turmoil of the time. I loved this novel. I don’t often enjoy novels with love stories, but this was so much more than that. The characters all felt very believable and I liked all of them, even the ones who make mistakes. It revolves around how a ripple can change decades of time, and how the degrees of tradition or change can affect lives.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and Simon & Schuster Canada for my honest review. I give this 4.5 stars of 5.

challe232's review against another edition

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5.0

The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali takes place mainly in Tehran in the 1950’s and also covers the political turmoil of the time. I loved this novel. I don’t often enjoy novels with love stories, but this was so much more than that. The characters all felt very believable and I liked all of them, even the ones who made mistakes. It revolves around how a ripple can change decades of time, and how the degrees of tradition or change can affect lives.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and Simon & Schuster Canada for my honest review. I give this 4.5 stars of 5.

noufy's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

taliabasma's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Idk the book was good but bad lol. The writing was poignant and I don’t love time jumps but this one was very well done. (

But we really did not at all need Claire’s pov

)

The best way to describe this is, the fault in our stars was sad on purpose while a walk to remember was a story with sadness. And idk this book felt like it was sad on purpose.

We don’t really get to know Bahman nor Roya’s full personality. They just had a young love but there wasn’t much depth to their characters nor their relationship outside of the missed factor.

I also think this book is actually about Bahman’s mom and her life more than anyone else to be honest and it could be a good thing if they gave her character a LITTLE bit more depth.

If you hate miscommunication this is basically a back and forth novel with a purposeful and manipulative miscommunication.

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