A review by tessaf
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

2.5

The annoying thing is I like dual timeline stories, but this one just did not work for me. I put it down for ages and only picked it back up because I ran out of renewals at my library. I don't dislike it, it was okay. It was just not working for me.

I've slept on it and I think the problem is I wanted more from the Rawiya timeline. These are two stories I would have probably liked better if they weren't together, they cut down on what each of them could provide, like Nour could take a little more, but Rawiya needed a lot more.