These Infinite Threads (TWK #2) by Tahereh Mafi

2 stars

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this book evades all kinds of logic, and Taherah Mafi hasn't got the slightest amount of critical thinking.

my biggest gripe about this book is how quickly Cyrus and Alizeh's dynamic changed within a single day.

the entire fucking 300 pages of this book describes the events of one single day. why couldn't it have been spaced out? there's no damned reason for it to not have been?

and it wouldn't have been a problem had it been an eventful, plot filled book. no. it's 300 pages of reading the characters being confused, indecisive, and lost and, oh—did I say confused?

fucking idiotic.

their emotions go like a ping pong ball from hate to distrust to attraction to distrust. all. within. a. single. day.

i was in the brains of 2 inconclusive, indecisive, and overwhelmed characters. if I wanted that, I would've simply sat with my own thoughts, and gotten to feel all of those things without wasting the time and effort of reading 300 fucking pages of absolute tomfoolery.

one good thing did come out of this—my resolve to write a book. i know for a fucking fact I can do so much better than this.

I liked Cyrus and Alizeh's snarky exchanges. until 60% of the book. and then I'm like: within a single day you went from wanting to kill each other to crying for him? to wanting to save each other? to oh, idk, confessing exceedingly vulnerable things to each other?

how on fucking earth. does this much progress. happen in a single damned day.

was there no one in Mafi's life that told her to space this shit out?

and Kamran. Kamran went from this kind and gentle prince who has exceptionally good instincts to this. this. confused. untrusting. cynical fool. were it not for Hazan, the plot wouldn't have gone anywhere for him.

which is a real shame because Alizeh's and Kamran's romance in the first book was one of the sweetest things ever.