smoakwithwifi 's review for:

The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

4.0

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I wanted to love this book. Indeed, the narration was excellent, the prose poetic, and the setting called to life real places, some I've been to, some I now feel like I have. But for some reason, I could never read more than a chapter a day, and the narrative felt like it just went on and on, relentlessly — which may have been part of the point, but at the end of the day, I had to force myself to finish this.