Books Babbling 1: "For you, a thousand times over!"

TW! Contents below have some triggering topics and themes that may be disturbing to some readers. Do read at your own risk.

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Title: The Kite Runner.

Author: Khaled Hosseini.

Main topics: Betrayal, brotherhood, friendship, lifelong guilt, mentions of: rape, sexual abuse, suicide attempt, gore, uses of vulgar words.

Genre: Historical Fiction, Drama, Coming of Age, Classics.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.5)

Summary:

Amir just wanted to celebrate his accomplishment for winning the kite running competition. But the tragedy that day had changed everything; including his friendship with Hassan, his servant's son. Ali and Hassan were now gone, and Baba was miserable again. When the Russian revolutionaries came, Baba and Amir fled away to America, leaving their mansion to Baba's best friend, Rahim Khan. Meeting Soraya was a blessing, even though asking for her hand in marriage had cost Amir a lot of pain and misery. The time Amir thought he could finally live in peace, came a call from Rahim Khan all across the globe, telling him that "There is a way to be good again."

Amir tried. He really tried his best to fix everything he had done in the past. But everything was going against him. And he did not have much time.

And why does truth always come in the wrong time?

Characters:

Amir: Main character.

Baba: Amir's father. Lived up to that 'masculine' stereotype.

Ali: A servant to Baba's family, a Hazara. Hassan's father.

Hassan: Ali's son, Amir's best friend.

Rahim Khan: A heaven sent. Baba's best friend.

Assef, Kamal and Wali: Bastards. A bunch of freaking douchebags. Pricks. I said what I said. I don't know how many time I cursed Assef when I read the book ugh🤦🏻‍♀️

Soraya: My Lady:) Amir's true backbone.

General Taheri and Jamila Jan: The power couple, Soraya's parents.

Sanaubar: Hassan's mother.

Farzana Jan: Hassan's wife.

Sohrab: My little angel:'), Hassan's son.

Honourable mention:

🌸Sofia Akrami: Amir's mother, died after giving birth to Amir.

Review:

(WARNING!: SPOILERS AHEAD)

Am I stressed? I am. Did I regret it? Nope.

Honestly whoever proposed this book to be listed in my literary text, we need to talk. I owe you my tears.

This book talks about a LOT of things: betrayal, guilt, friendship and brotherhood, culture and tradition and many more. I reckon, however, that the betrayal and guilt topics are very loud and strongly accentuated.

Let's talk about how Amir literally lived in guilt for almost 30 years, just because he: refused to tell anyone that he witnessed Hassan got r*ped by Assef, betrayed Hassan and Ali by putting his expensive watch under Hassan's pillow, broke and cut EVERYTHING he and Hassan once had had together, never knew that Hassan was ACTUALLY his half-brother, not until Rahim Khan told him, and almost lost Sohrab, who was his only hope to fix everything back, because he was always doubtful and uncertain.

Oh wow that's a lot hshshshs. If that scared you, please take a deep breath first😂

You see, I somehow could get it, why Amir behaved that way. He was barely twelve when the incident took place, of course he would be traumatized. How would you act if you were in his shoes, you tell me. Amir was partly wrong, in my opinion, but the blame should not be put directly on him.

What I like about this book is that, it tells us that everyone has their own past, history and secret. Baba never told Amir that Hassan was actually his half brother, leading to the reason why Amir was always jealous when Baba praised Hassan. Because after all this time, Hassan was a servant to him. Why should a servant be praised? That is why, in my perspective, Amir was not the one to be blame in the first place. As you read the book, you will see the secret of each character got revealed little by little. Even Rahim Khan got his own story. Soraya too. I do not feel like spoiling all the tea, hoping that you would give this book a shot🍵

Second, I like how this book simply made my predictions flew out of the window. You see, when you read a book, you will have this 'oh i guess this conflict will end here' or 'nah now he's happy that he's found the love of his life.' Boi, I tell you not with this book. You just, cannot. Okay now that you have read some spoilers of course you could expect something, but in my eyes, as a person who was thrown into this book without knowing anything, this book gave me a freaking mindblown.

Honestly, if I were to put this book into my own categories, it would be in that 'Books That Have Been Obliterating My Cognitive Function.'

Lastly, maybe. The book tells about one's struggle to find love and comfort. I love how Hosseini brought two broken people together just for them to find comfort in each other's arms. In that case, it was Amir and Soraya. I love that Baba treated Ali like his own family member and cried when Ali moved out. Ali was a brother he never had. I love how hard was it for Sohrab to open up to Amir and Soraya, but the fact that they never gave up on him, the efforts were all worth it. Because Sohrab came in the family, broken. Just like Amir and Soraya. It feels like, Hosseini broke all of them in the first place, and with their broken pieces, he gathered them together to build a new life. To breathe a new air.

The fact that this story is told from the eyes of Amir, it feels like you are reading someone's diary, or journal. At some point, it feels like you are directly talking to Amir, or listening to him. Hosseini always has his own ways with words, to the extent that they hit you right in your gut. Even with the characters' monologues, somehow when you mutter them in your brain, it feels like the words are meant for you.

God, did I mention that I am in love this book? The plot was carefully planned and the ending; even tough not really satisfying in my opinion; is beautiful. Heartwarming. Like you could finally breathe after being trapped in a lightless and tight, narrow hole. Like you could finally see a tint of light in the couldy sky. Like a hope.

Damn I am emotional already hshshshsh😔🤏🏻

Favourite character: BRUH I stan Rahim Khan😔✊🏻

Favourtie moment: SIS I live for the way Amir flirted (read: awkwardly trying to) with Soraya. That 'Wuthering Heights' moment got me rolling hshsh and oh! I love whenever Amir and Baba seem like sharing the same brain cells together. Like father, like son, they say💅🏻

And before I forget, this book does have a movie adaptation.

All in all, I gave this book 4.5, because I could. Go read the book, then come join me in this 'sendu' community. See you in the next book! I will be ranting more and more so bear with me, lovelies.

Swalk,

𝔣𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔦𝔩𝔶𝔞𝔫𝔞💜