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

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

2.75

I absolutely love Tahereh Mafi's writing style so so much. It's so lyrical and poetic which is one of my favorite writing style's in books. At the beginning of this book i was really enjoying it and our main charcater. I don't remmber the specifics but, i do remember there being something that did annoy me about the main character. The ending of this book really lost me. It ended pretty abruptly and it felt like the whole book was building to something that didn't even happen. It was a book where nothing really happened- but, not in a "not every book has to have a happy endeing and thats the beauty of an ordinary ending" but it was actually more like "huh? wait what? that's how it ends???". I feel so guilty for not loving this book, i still loved her writing it's just the plot lost me. The shatter me series is one of my favorites and i was detrmined that Tahereh Mafi was going to become my new fav author. Just for the first book i read from her outside of the shatter me universe i don't like- How unfortunate. I still have two other books by her that i hope i enjoy more than this one.