A review by maguireriley
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

medium-paced

3.0

Martyr! has an engaging story, but I found a lot of the dialogue overly monologue-y and the book generally overwritten. I have always preferred a more direct style of writing though, so I guess I should’ve expected that. Also didn’t love the twist at the end, but I can’t really articulate why. I did burn through it in three days though, so clearly I was invested. The beauty of NYPL is that even though I didn’t love this book as much as I expected to, I’m not even mad at it because it was free.99. Interesting enough for me to finish which is all I need!