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A review by atestroete
Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai
3.0
“Allah loved his people, but sent them hardships to test their faith. Nadia had listened but deep in her heart she could not reconcile how such cruelty could be love. She sighed, the bruise in her heart a festering wound.”
“This is our land, our home. We will be buried here with our forefathers, in the dirt of Syria.”
“‘My girl, do not weep,’ he said. ‘You are much stronger than you think.”
I enjoyed the journey of Nadia as she tries to make her way out of Syria and found the factual information interesting, but it felt disjointed and stuffed into the story at odd moments.
Also, I found it really disheartening that Nadia was left behind by her whole family despite the fact they knew she was still alive. Nadia obviously didn’t know her way around the city well enough to escape by herself, so why didn’t someone stay at the dentist’s office until she arrived?
“This is our land, our home. We will be buried here with our forefathers, in the dirt of Syria.”
“‘My girl, do not weep,’ he said. ‘You are much stronger than you think.”
I enjoyed the journey of Nadia as she tries to make her way out of Syria and found the factual information interesting, but it felt disjointed and stuffed into the story at odd moments.
Also, I found it really disheartening that Nadia was left behind by her whole family despite the fact they knew she was still alive. Nadia obviously didn’t know her way around the city well enough to escape by herself, so why didn’t someone stay at the dentist’s office until she arrived?