Reviews

When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar

kata16's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

bunnipdf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Poignant but I felt there was something lacking from the character development that I was really looking forward to seeing. 

bridinsarah's review

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

lauraboles9's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

gdulecki's review

challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This story was beautiful, devastating, haunting, raw, captivating,,,, and and and,,,, I finished this book in a couple hours, only pausing to come home from the beach and shower. I do think the writing style and structure of the book was really interesting and it is very different from the structure of what I usually read. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did, but I don’t think I could read many books like this at once— they’d have to be sprinkled in here and there. Overall I really enjoyed this and look forward to whatever Fatima Asghar writes next. 

turtleandfig's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

avvai's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

makealongstorycourt's review

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

I liked this, but again, didn’t stand out. 

This one felt a lot like the color purple. A tragic coming-of-age tale in which the main daughter/sister/girl/woman questions her own faith because of the life she’s forced to live. For this, I admire the work. It was easy to read yet reflective. 

However, I am left wondering if I will remember it as much as I did the color purple. I would’ve loved more reflection about Kausar’s faith in Allah throughout many points in the book. I think that there were many quick snapshots of struggle, love, identity, and survival. Overall, I would dub this as a hybrid of the color purple and the house on mango street, but lacking a bit of the rawness that both of those classics have. 

briannehuffman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

apieceofskye's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25