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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

2 reviews

madlyreading's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Animal death, Bullying, Colonisation, Grief, Gaslighting, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, and Emotional abuse

cosmiccutie's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Between the oddness of the house and garden and the cast of characters within this story reminds me so of Coraline.

"Like the start of a rash, one can never say exactly when it began, except to say that it always seemed to this way."

" She told me girls couldn't have weaknesses, that the moment they did someone would take advantage, 'A girl has to be strong if she's going to survive this world', she said."

" She was a strange one. I know we don't talk much about her, but it was difficult for her, you know? She wasn't like us. Sometimes. I feel she was like a wildflower in the velt and I picked her up and tried to put her in a vase. She found it hard to... exist. But she tried for a long time, for you, for me. I know she didn't show it always, but she loved us and her own way. We just didn't always understand."

" She can see now that a person can be more whole with broken parts."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Racism and Sexual content