A review by madiganinwonderland
An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi

2.0

I suppose my expectations were too high for this book, but even if I wasn't going into it as an avid Mafi fan, this book just seemed to be more like a stream of consciousness or a diary than an actual book. I'm not sure what the end goal/message was that we're meant to take away from it. It's an ok book, and a tragic subject, but if you're just gonna start explaining the days during events, you gotta make an end point that makes sense. This didn't. This just felt like we reached the end of someone's diary before they switched to a new journal. Things would happen, fairly "big" things, but we would continue on after they happened to another seemingly random point. It just didn't make sense, it made it tedious to read. Anyway, was definitely disappointed.