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A review by anushareflects
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
slow-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? Yes
3.0
A unique story focused on the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lens of Hamlet.
Very intriguing writing using a theatre production of Hamlet to convey underlying meanings of the conflict in Israel-Palestine. A good book for theatre nerds or people who want fiction based in Palestine and focused on Palestinian perspective of the war. But there are a lot of unnecessary details about the protagonist who by the way is so unbearably dull. The audiobook narrator is simply horrendous and I think I lost so much of the charm of this book because the narrator straight up botched the reading. There are no inflections, it’s just read in a monotone. Overall, interesting plot but please don’t get the audio version on audible.
Very intriguing writing using a theatre production of Hamlet to convey underlying meanings of the conflict in Israel-Palestine. A good book for theatre nerds or people who want fiction based in Palestine and focused on Palestinian perspective of the war. But there are a lot of unnecessary details about the protagonist who by the way is so unbearably dull. The audiobook narrator is simply horrendous and I think I lost so much of the charm of this book because the narrator straight up botched the reading. There are no inflections, it’s just read in a monotone. Overall, interesting plot but please don’t get the audio version on audible.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, Miscarriage, and War