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alisarae 's review for:
The Map of Salt and Stars
by Zeyn Joukhadar
This is a cute story. I always like books that weave together a story in the past and one in the present—this one in particular beautifully mirrored the two parts.
The language is very colorful, literally. Scents and sounds are described with colors. It got to the point where it started to seem like weak writing—is color the only way the author knows how to describe things?? But around 75% of the way through, you learn that it has a clever narrative purpose. So, all is forgiven.
I really like stories set during the Golden Age of Islam—it was a creative and prosperous time, and so stories based on that tend to be richly creative as well.
The language is very colorful, literally. Scents and sounds are described with colors. It got to the point where it started to seem like weak writing—is color the only way the author knows how to describe things?? But around 75% of the way through, you learn that it has a clever narrative purpose. So, all is forgiven.
I really like stories set during the Golden Age of Islam—it was a creative and prosperous time, and so stories based on that tend to be richly creative as well.