A review by bookedbymadeline
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.

This reads like a pretentious, telling over showing, morality play 🫠 I couldn’t read more than a few pages at a time without getting bored and a fig tree in love with its owner (a male human)…nah I’m peacing out.

The characters are uninteresting and the synopsis of following a forbidden love story in 1974 Cyprus sounds way better than what we’ve actually been given.

After reading reviews by native Cypriots, this is apparently a horribly biased account of what happened, absolving British and Turkish soldiers and playing the “can’t we all just get along” “they were following orders” cards