Mostafa Chizari
A good book with a lot to say. It hits some genuinely important themes around identity and vulnerability but the writing style was just far too over the top for me - every feeling wrapped in layers of metaphor, to the point where I kept missing the heart of what the story was trying to do. For such a short novel, it somehow felt much longer, and not always in a good way. I appreciated the intent and the emotion, but the drama of the prose often drowned out the clarity I was waiting for.
A good book with a lot to say. It hits some genuinely important themes around identity and vulnerability but the writing style was just far too over the top for me - every feeling wrapped in layers of metaphor, to the point where I kept missing the heart of what the story was trying to do. For such a short novel, it somehow felt much longer, and not always in a good way. I appreciated the intent and the emotion, but the drama of the prose often drowned out the clarity I was waiting for.