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iris_sel 's review for:
We Free the Stars
by Hafsah Faizal
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
this book worked soooo much better for me than the first book!!
for one, i actually really like nisar in this one. of course, in an enemies to lovers book, the characters have to be enemies at the start but nisar was so unlikable in the first quarter of this duology that i could not get behind the romance at all...but in this book, his character develops so much more and he actually becomes interestingly complex, rather than just the tortured bad boy stereotype.
zafira was pretty compelling as well, and i loved that the author actually focused on the trauma that she endured in the first book and how it affected her. i thought it was pretty well done.
the miscommunication with kulsum pissed me the hell off though...it was incredibly unnecessary for her to return to this book in my opinion.
also the pacing was pretty good throughout, and i liked having altair's pov in this one too. he's so charming and funny, i just love being in his mind. the first 200 pages were a little too repetitive though. i was over all the scenes of nasir knocking on zafira's door, for them to only have a two second conversation, pretty fast lol. i know it was meant to build tension of the "will they, won't they" variety, but it just annoyed me...
anyway, beyond that, a great conclusion to the duology and the conflict was well plotted and well written!!
for one, i actually really like nisar in this one. of course, in an enemies to lovers book, the characters have to be enemies at the start but nisar was so unlikable in the first quarter of this duology that i could not get behind the romance at all...but in this book, his character develops so much more and he actually becomes interestingly complex, rather than just the tortured bad boy stereotype.
zafira was pretty compelling as well, and i loved that the author actually focused on the trauma that she endured in the first book and how it affected her. i thought it was pretty well done.
the miscommunication with kulsum pissed me the hell off though...it was incredibly unnecessary for her to return to this book in my opinion.
also the pacing was pretty good throughout, and i liked having altair's pov in this one too. he's so charming and funny, i just love being in his mind. the first 200 pages were a little too repetitive though. i was over all the scenes of nasir knocking on zafira's door, for them to only have a two second conversation, pretty fast lol. i know it was meant to build tension of the "will they, won't they" variety, but it just annoyed me...
anyway, beyond that, a great conclusion to the duology and the conflict was well plotted and well written!!