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A review by madiganinwonderland
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
5.0
I totally love this. Super super quick read with a lovely perspective and a really sweet romance. I loved Shirin, her brother and Ocean. Ocean is definitely the first crush in a book I've had in a while he's so damn sweet. Shirin and her brother's relationship is so sweet and it really makes me wish I had siblings.
Tahereh is such a great author from what I've read so far she just knows how to tell a good story. That being said, if I'm completely honest this book is more of a 4.5 star for me, because it suffers from a lot of telling not showing. A lot of the conflict and conversations are just wrapped up in Shirin's head for us and while it cuts down on length, it definitely took me out of the story more than once.
However, I enjoyed this too much not to give it the full 5 stars. I just loved all of this and I read it in a day because I just had to know where it was going. Overall I'm really really glad I picked this up. This gave me a new fictional character crush and a new author crush. Oh bisexuality how you make life interesting.
Spoiler
I am SO glad this book had redemption for our mcs. We didn't excuse Shirin's behavior in the end just because we're in her perspective. We didn't even have to wait till the end for her to realize most of her shit. I love her. She's so real and not forced and to be honest of course I can't help but only picture the precious, gorgeous Tahereh as our mc. That's exactly who was in my head the whole time. It made me feel like I was sitting down with a friend who was telling me a great story. And I loved all of it. I loved the pace with the story. I didn't even mind the internet side of the conversations (probably because no social media). They completely added to the feel of their budding love.Tahereh is such a great author from what I've read so far she just knows how to tell a good story. That being said, if I'm completely honest this book is more of a 4.5 star for me, because it suffers from a lot of telling not showing. A lot of the conflict and conversations are just wrapped up in Shirin's head for us and while it cuts down on length, it definitely took me out of the story more than once.
However, I enjoyed this too much not to give it the full 5 stars. I just loved all of this and I read it in a day because I just had to know where it was going. Overall I'm really really glad I picked this up. This gave me a new fictional character crush and a new author crush. Oh bisexuality how you make life interesting.