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The Seamstress of Ourfa (#1)
by Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss
I received The Seamstress of Ourfa in exchange for an honest review. I have given this book one out of five stars ⭐️
I found it quite difficult to follow this story and all of the characters involved. The different times that this historical fiction memoir jumps between made it quite disjointed and so I was left confused. I think I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if it had been written in a timeline sequence between the family.
Unfortunately I didn't feel a connection with any of the characters I came across which I feel is always a big part of a story from most genres to be able to have.
I wish I had known that there was a glossary of all the words used within the book which I didn't know just by reading them at first. This should have been placed at the beginning of the book or at least said beforehand something along the lines of "you can find all of the index for foreign words at the back of this book" as I had no idea at times what they were talking about and do not want to go back through and make sense of it all again.
It did however make me think and realise how difficult the times must have been during the Armenian genocide, very sad and ever so tragic.
Unfortunately I didn't feel a connection with any of the characters I came across which I feel is always a big part of a story from most genres to be able to have.
I wish I had known that there was a glossary of all the words used within the book which I didn't know just by reading them at first. This should have been placed at the beginning of the book or at least said beforehand something along the lines of "you can find all of the index for foreign words at the back of this book" as I had no idea at times what they were talking about and do not want to go back through and make sense of it all again.
It did however make me think and realise how difficult the times must have been during the Armenian genocide, very sad and ever so tragic.