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This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi
5.0
Representation: Asian main characters
Trigger warnings: Death of parents, blood depiction, suicide attempt, hate crimes, racism, decapitation, near death experience, knife violence, physical injury
Read this review for context: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5277935854
8/10, I've been hyping this up for a while and I was so excited to read it when I first borrowed it from one of the two libraries I go to, I didn't know what to expect at first considering I've never read from this author and this is the start of a trilogy, I was blown away and now I can't wait to read the next book in the series called These Infinite Threads. Where do I even begin? By the way this reminds me of a book I read a while back which underwhelmed me, that had a similar concept but this was executed better and in other words this book succeeded where the other failed, that being said it starts with the main characters Alizeh whose last name I forgot, she's a servant girl but she's not even human rather she's a jinn or a fire being and the other critical person is called Kamran and he is a prince, son of King Zaal and an heir. These two characters live separately from each other at first and I liked when the author inserted a chapter explaining how the world worked, the jinn ruled over the world until someone called Iblees ruined it, the world was destroyed killing most of the jinn. Centuries later a new race called human beings emerge and for some reason they thought the jinn were evil products so they set out to destroy them all, an empire established peace between the two races lasting since then. What set this book apart is the characters, they had problems to overcome and they did, experiencing development which I liked, I don't see that much in books I read so I'm glad I got one with that. Not long after they finally meet and that was one of the less strong parts, the romance was an afterthought but still it didn't matter much when I enjoyed all the other aspects. Not to mention that ending was so action packed, the slow burn was all worth it since all the tension was building to this moment ending this on an epic cliffhanger and a high note.
Trigger warnings: Death of parents, blood depiction, suicide attempt, hate crimes, racism, decapitation, near death experience, knife violence, physical injury
Read this review for context: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5277935854
8/10, I've been hyping this up for a while and I was so excited to read it when I first borrowed it from one of the two libraries I go to, I didn't know what to expect at first considering I've never read from this author and this is the start of a trilogy, I was blown away and now I can't wait to read the next book in the series called These Infinite Threads. Where do I even begin? By the way this reminds me of a book I read a while back which underwhelmed me, that had a similar concept but this was executed better and in other words this book succeeded where the other failed, that being said it starts with the main characters Alizeh whose last name I forgot, she's a servant girl but she's not even human rather she's a jinn or a fire being and the other critical person is called Kamran and he is a prince, son of King Zaal and an heir. These two characters live separately from each other at first and I liked when the author inserted a chapter explaining how the world worked, the jinn ruled over the world until someone called Iblees ruined it, the world was destroyed killing most of the jinn. Centuries later a new race called human beings emerge and for some reason they thought the jinn were evil products so they set out to destroy them all, an empire established peace between the two races lasting since then. What set this book apart is the characters, they had problems to overcome and they did, experiencing development which I liked, I don't see that much in books I read so I'm glad I got one with that. Not long after they finally meet and that was one of the less strong parts, the romance was an afterthought but still it didn't matter much when I enjoyed all the other aspects. Not to mention that ending was so action packed, the slow burn was all worth it since all the tension was building to this moment ending this on an epic cliffhanger and a high note.