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A review by brennieree33
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
5.0
FANTASTIC BOOK!
Here's the non-spoilery stuff:
-There's a lot of terms that the typical Western audience wouldn't know- or at least that I didn't know, and I'm assuming a lot of others who aren't familiar with what I believe is Middle Eastern influence wouldn't know. Things like shah, shahbanu, names of food, etc. You'd have to figure them out as you went along and they would get mixed up a lot. It's just a little jarring, and it kind of takes you out of the story when you're juggling all these foreign terms
-I ADORE the premise of the book, and I LOVE where the author took it. I was so excited to read this book, and it truly lived up to all of my expectations.
-"I wish I could see it,' she whispered into the night. The night didn't respond, but Azad did." This literally KILLED me and it was fantastic.
-One of the most BEAUTIFUL book covers I have ever seen in my life. Like, I literally just want to frame it for all to see.
-Pretty early on in the book, I thought that the div in the dungeon would be the simorgh, and I was very ready to congratulate myself when I saw that from the beginning... and I was very wrong.
-The Shahmar twist was really unexpected. When things wrapped up so early in the story, I had no idea where Bashardoust was going to go with the rest of the book, and this happened a couple of times, but she truly did a great job.
-The whole reasoning of "I'll make your firstborn daughter my bride" made so much more sense than whatever reasoning the div gave in Tahmineh's story.
-I truly just loved this book
-The rose/thorn foreshadowing was AMAZING. I remember thinking in the beginning, "Roses are going to have some significance to the story" and I was right.
-Loved Parvenah, Tahmineh, Azad, and Soraya as characters especially
Truly loved this book. It will definitely be a favorite of mine.
Here's the non-spoilery stuff:
-There's a lot of terms that the typical Western audience wouldn't know- or at least that I didn't know, and I'm assuming a lot of others who aren't familiar with what I believe is Middle Eastern influence wouldn't know. Things like shah, shahbanu, names of food, etc. You'd have to figure them out as you went along and they would get mixed up a lot. It's just a little jarring, and it kind of takes you out of the story when you're juggling all these foreign terms
-I ADORE the premise of the book, and I LOVE where the author took it. I was so excited to read this book, and it truly lived up to all of my expectations.
-"I wish I could see it,' she whispered into the night. The night didn't respond, but Azad did." This literally KILLED me and it was fantastic.
-One of the most BEAUTIFUL book covers I have ever seen in my life. Like, I literally just want to frame it for all to see.
-The Shahmar twist was really unexpected. When things wrapped up so early in the story, I had no idea where Bashardoust was going to go with the rest of the book, and this happened a couple of times, but she truly did a great job.
-The whole reasoning of "I'll make your firstborn daughter my bride" made so much more sense than whatever reasoning the div gave in Tahmineh's story.
-I truly just loved this book
-The rose/thorn foreshadowing was AMAZING. I remember thinking in the beginning, "Roses are going to have some significance to the story" and I was right.
-Loved Parvenah, Tahmineh, Azad, and Soraya as characters especially
Truly loved this book. It will definitely be a favorite of mine.