Reviews for Links

The average rating for Links based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-14 00:00:00 Lori Hagele "Jeebleh sat unmoving, like a candle just blown out, smoking its last moments darkly." Yes, that would be a smart way to react when your traveling partner (of sorts) and his armed bodyguards begin to get nervous. Jeebleh has returned to Somalia after 20 years. But why? Really to visit his mother's grave? Or will he be doing more, some activity that will endanger his life more than simply being in the country has done? Well, I have to admit I never cared what would happen to friend Jeebleh. Maybe now is simply not the right time for me to be reading such a darkly violent book; after five chapters I had to put it down and walk away. I borrowed this from the library after reading Hiding In Plain Sight by the same author. But this earlier book could not capture my attention even as much as Hiding did. Not sure I will ever be tempted to come back to it or to try another by Farah. DNF after 5 chapters.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-30 00:00:00 Adam Howard The book was very hard to finish. It was overfilled with bad metaphors. The story itself was terrible. Even though everything was explained over and over again I never understood Jeebleh or any other character in the book. It felt like a 300-400 pages short story. The story never really started. Like flying over a landscape with a heavy dark raincloud beneath you. All you want is to dive under the cloud and see the landscape. I wanted to understand the book but a big dark cloud followed every single page.