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pebbles1984 's review for:
The Map of Salt and Stars
by Zeyn Joukhadar
I had very high expectations for this book. They didn't quite come true, but I still enjoyed it. I had some issues with the writing. It wasn't bad, not at all, but there were so many metaphores that it was distracting at times and kept me from really getting into the story. In the first half of the book I also didn't feel a need to get back to it, but at some point that changed and suddenly I found it much harder to put down. Also, and I loved learning about Al-Idrisi, who actually was a real map maker back in the 1100s.