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Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
This is the kind of book I can read again and again and understand more each time because there’s so much to think about.
The first 100 or so pages of the book were slow and kind of boring. I read the book because I heard it was great! not because I was interested in the premise. Like two days ago, I decided I just needed to finish the book and return it to the library before my loan expired. Somewhere between page 150 and 200 it went from mildly interesting to completely captivating, and I read over half the book in a single day. It’s not a long book to read by any means, but it had taken me a month to get up to the point I had been at previously (page 100).
There are so many emotions to be felt during this book and you feel them very powerfully. Some of the stuff in the beginning was too much for me, it wasn’t what I could handle, but the rest of it is just heartbreaking. You really, really feel the pain, the hurt, the abandonment, the neglect, not the hatred but the absence of love, the tragedy of a different kind of love. It was so real.
The last thing I can think to say is that I love Cyrus and Zee. Their relationship was perplexing to me at the beginning, but when their story started to grow, when they started to grow and develop, I loved them so much, and the whole story really boils down to just them. Cyrus and Zee.
The first 100 or so pages of the book were slow and kind of boring. I read the book because I heard it was great! not because I was interested in the premise. Like two days ago, I decided I just needed to finish the book and return it to the library before my loan expired. Somewhere between page 150 and 200 it went from mildly interesting to completely captivating, and I read over half the book in a single day. It’s not a long book to read by any means, but it had taken me a month to get up to the point I had been at previously (page 100).
There are so many emotions to be felt during this book and you feel them very powerfully. Some of the stuff in the beginning was too much for me, it wasn’t what I could handle, but the rest of it is just heartbreaking. You really, really feel the pain, the hurt, the abandonment, the neglect, not the hatred but the absence of love, the tragedy of a different kind of love. It was so real.
The last thing I can think to say is that I love Cyrus and Zee. Their relationship was perplexing to me at the beginning, but when their story started to grow, when they started to grow and develop, I loved them so much, and the whole story really boils down to just them. Cyrus and Zee.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, Alcohol, War
Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Islamophobia, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Homophobia