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These Infinite Threads by Tahereh Mafi

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manaledi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

This book suffered from classic middle of a trilogy syndrome in setting up the drama to come. I didn't remember much of book one, so some of the context and stress points were missing. As usual, I'm unconvinced by the burgeoning love triangle, but I understand it as a plot point.

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lawbooks600's review against another edition

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emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

Representation: Asian characters
Score: Seven points out of ten.

Before I begin, I must say something: the third book is next year? It better be good. Now then, it's been months since I read the first instalment, This Woven Kingdom, and I loved it so much, so I went into this one with high expectations. Honestly, I thought the second part of the series was a minor downgrade, and the first one is better. It starts (or rather continues) with the main character, Alizeh Huda, or Alizeh for short, and the book picks up right off from This Woven Kingdom with an action-packed beginning from the previous ending. The book slowed its pace from here, but that allowed me to explore the character dynamics with Alizeh, Cyrus and Kamran, and the multiple POVs also helped. Alizeh further develops a romantic relationship with Cyrus, which spans throughout most of the narrative, which left nothing much else happening. If it weren't for the romance, I would've given this three stars instead of four. Still, I hope the third book would be an improvement over the second, or even as good or better than the first novel.

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

a fun read, but tbh the plot didn't really advance much??? i am even more confused and i have too many questions still

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snowwhitehatesapples's review against another edition

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tense slow-paced

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

1.0

Also on Snow White Hates Apples.

In all my years, I’ve never read a sequel as useless as this one because I kid you not, there was only 1% plot. ONE SINGULAR PERCENT PLOT.

At the end of This Woven Kingdom, we witness Kamran having his showdown with Cyrus and Alizeh getting kidnapped by Iblees via dragon. These Infinite Threads continues the story from that point and in a little more than 400 pages, only moved the plot forward by one tiny. little. centimetre.

Alizeh’s perspective in this sequel is legit, a 99% pointless and incredibly juvenile back-and-forth with Cyrus within the timespan of like, 2 days. Plus, with the frequency of this spineless, whiny special snowflake of a damsel in distress uttering “how dare you”, you could have yourself a ‘drink a shot’ challenge and get yourself super drunk.

Here are the 7 “how dare you”s I noted in this book (there’s one more by Miss Huda but I’ll leave that out):

“How dare you,” she said. “You horrible cretin. You useless monster. How could you—” (Page 4)
“How dare you.” (Page 33)
“How dare you,” she said, her fists clenching. “How dare you slander my person when you know nothing about me—” (Page 102)
“How dare you,” she whispered. (Page 165)
“How dare you,” she said, drawing herself up to her full height, her fists clenching. “I am not pathetic—” (Page 235)
“I certainly will not listen to you— And how dare you call me stupid and infuriating—” (Page 237)
She gasped. “I am not a demented Jinn, how dare you—” (Page 357).

Anyway, the remaining 1% in Alizeh’s POV isn’t even the plot. It’s just revelations explaining why Cyrus did what he did and a little more on Alizeh’s identity as a Jinn. So yeah, basically nothing happened in the 200+ pages of her POV. The story didn’t move forward, there was no character development — in fact, all I saw was character deterioration. And God, the romance was disgusting (not saying the one she had with Kamran wasn’t problematic). I don’t know how anyone could think someone cleaning blood off another’s face with their tears could be a touching, much less swoon-worthy act cause this is ‘bombastic side eye, criminal offensive side eye' territory.

The actual aforementioned 1% plot happened in Kamran’s POV where the story blessedly moved forward. Even more astonishing is that character development happened for Kamran! He’s no longer the complete asshole he was and he even became more mature. I couldn’t see why some reviewers said he was annoying since he’s the sole reason I continued reading this sequel instead of DNFing it (and also the sole cause of the singular star I’m rating this sequel). Seriously, Alizeh was just so irritating, so sickening, so ‘oh-woe-is-me‘ despite how she could’ve saved herself with how OP she is. It was such a chore reading her perspective that I skipped chunks and chunks and chunks of non-dialogue, repetitive, navel-gazing paragraphs.

Also, I didn’t think it was possible but the purple prose got even more purple than the first book — and at this point, it’s no longer bearable. It’s simply obnoxious, pretentious and wasteful. Everything in this book could’ve happened in less than 200 pages, maybe even within 100 pages!

As much as I like Kamran now, I’m not going to bother picking up the next book just to find out what happens. Alizeh is too major ick for me to handle.

Thank you so much Pansing for sending me a copy of this in exchange for an honest review! These Infinite Threads by Tahereh Mafi is available at all good bookstores.

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adventurous challenging mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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soniajoy98's review

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

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

3.5

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fremzz's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This. Was. So. Good.

I went into the book very unsure because I knew there would be a love triangle probably and I had liked Kamran so much in the first book I didn’t even want to read about another love interest. But I have no idea how Tahereh did it because now I can’t stop thinking about Cyrus. I’m conflicted because we now barely anything about him and his motivations for his actions but he intrigues me so much and the tension between him and Alizeh was 🫢🫢. Now Im just confused because I still like Kamran but now I’m super interested in Cyrus too and I have no idea what Tahereh is going to do! I’m afraid she’s going to make me hate Kamran in the third book and I don’t want her too because I LOVED him in the first book. And still really do in this one. But Cyrus’s character was SO GOOD.
I wish I could separate the two books in my head so I could be invested in Alizeh and Kamran in the first book and Alizeh and Cyrus in this one BUT I CAN’T.
I think Kamran is going to get another love interest in the third one and Alizeh and Cyrus are going to end up toguether because there is no way those two aren’t head over heels for each other (I believed the same about Kamran and Alizeh in the first book 😭😭). Truly I just want them all to have a happy ending.
I do understand that if you like plot heavy books you probably won’t like this one because it is true that very little happened in it. But idc because I was so invested in everything else too much.
First fully 5 ⭐️ of the year I think.

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adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

Tahereh Mafi just does it for me every time. I don’t think I can wait until next year for the final book.

ALIZEHCYRUS ENDGAME IDC. At first, I was like “Nooo, I hate Cyrus. Give me Kamran, I love Kamran” but then, after finishing, I was like “Wait…who’s Kamran???” (Still love him though). I do like Alizeh and Cyrus better together because I felt like they had more of a connection. Kamran, I felt, only wanted to be with her because she’d make a good queen, but Cyrus wants to be with her because she’s her. If that makes sense. I’ve actually never seen a man on his knees for a woman like this in my life, and I am absolutely living for it.

Tahereh Mafi always seems to make me fall for murders… It’s really bad… I also don’t know how she’s made me fall for a blond and now and ginger man. It’s like her specialty.

This is by far the best sequel I have ever read. Usually, sequels don’t live up to my expectations, but this one exceeded them.

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