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sch91086 's review for:
Enter Ghost
by Isabella Hammad
3.5 stars. This isn’t a bad book, and I appreciate it for the light it sheds on the current issues in Palestine/Israel.
However.
It lacked the emotional impact I was hoping it would deliver. It has its moments, snippets and vignettes like with Rashid and the homeless student and certainly the ending. But the main character we follow is Sonia and she bounces back and forth between memories and present day and the memories weren’t really related to the play or the current day story so it didn’t always feel cohesive to me (and to be frank, I couldn’t have cared less about Harry…) Her feelings on Palestine were frustratingly distant. And maybe the author intended it that way and that’s fine, I guess it’s just not what I was expecting.
Additionally, the ending is ambiguous. So I’m left unsure what to think, a little bit empty. It’s like the author backed out of concluding the story to leave me with a clever line. An epilogue might have helped.
So I don’t know. Not sorry to have read it I guess even if it’s not a favorite. The audio version was well done and I really liked the narrator.
However.
It lacked the emotional impact I was hoping it would deliver. It has its moments, snippets and vignettes like with Rashid and the homeless student and certainly the ending. But the main character we follow is Sonia and she bounces back and forth between memories and present day and the memories weren’t really related to the play or the current day story so it didn’t always feel cohesive to me (and to be frank, I couldn’t have cared less about Harry…) Her feelings on Palestine were frustratingly distant. And maybe the author intended it that way and that’s fine, I guess it’s just not what I was expecting.
Additionally, the ending is ambiguous. So I’m left unsure what to think, a little bit empty. It’s like the author backed out of concluding the story to leave me with a clever line. An epilogue might have helped.
So I don’t know. Not sorry to have read it I guess even if it’s not a favorite. The audio version was well done and I really liked the narrator.