A review by wet_towlette
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

adventurous tense medium-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? Yes

1.0

Bare with me here because I have many complaints. I would like to preface this by saying I went into this book expecting to really love it because it’s seems to be right up my alley. It was really disappointing when I realized I didn’t. I also want to say although I will be listing a lot of criticisms, there are good things about this book. The writing is very lyrical and the entire world is quite fascinating. With that being said something about it really didn’t work with me. But I do believe the second book will most likely be better. 

I will now be listing all my issues with this book because it’s probably the briefest way I can explain: 

-too info dumping for my liking 
-characters inner monologues are greatly repetitive, especially in the beginning 
-the writing can be very confusing and I felt like I didn’t know what was going half the time 
-the relationship with deen and zafira had so much potential to be something greater then it was 
-romance is very forced (albeit interesting if you can look past how forced it is) 
-idk if anyone knows what I’m talking about but the three line sentence break up things drives me crazy. It happens on many occasions and is terrible every single time 
-this is more of a personal issue but the characters are so hypocritical and it really bothers me 
-the entirety of the beginning of act three just felt very rushed and out of place 
-the characters don’t feel like real people. Like the way the react to things or do things after hardships. They just feel like words on a paper. 


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