How It All Blew Up follows Amir and his family after they are detained after a fight on an airplane and deals with the events leading up to the fight including Amir running away to Rome and his new life there.
The plot of the book was not what I expected, I also did not like the writing style and how the story is told through multiple perspectives which I felt was irrelevant. Everything moved very quickly, the pace of the book made it hard for me to connect to Amir because I hardly knew him and his life prior to running away (I would have liked to know more about his first relationship) and then in Rome, Amir is dealing with a lot of new things that there is little focus on him as a character and more on other characters/drama. The book starts of with the family being detained in separate rooms and the story involves all of their perspectives which I personally found boring and I guess all the commentary within these sections was pointless for me, the side comments were weird and awkward and to be honest this aspect of the book was pointless, there was no big resolve at the end.
When Amir is in Rome a lot happens and there are various characters introduced but because everything moves very fast it is quite confusing because Amir changes his mind about people and his situation very quickly so I do not know how to feel about these side characters. I did not expect so much focus on his life in Rome, honestly the plot was not what I thought it would be and I expected religion to play a bigger part in the book. Also, because this is a YA novel, when Amir ran away, I expected him to hang out with people his own age but most of his friends are way older than him.
The writing style was not for me, the book and Amir’s character felt flat and so even with everything going on I was bored and uninterested in the story, I skimmed read most of the book.
1/5
The plot of the book was not what I expected, I also did not like the writing style and how the story is told through multiple perspectives which I felt was irrelevant. Everything moved very quickly, the pace of the book made it hard for me to connect to Amir because I hardly knew him and his life prior to running away (I would have liked to know more about his first relationship) and then in Rome, Amir is dealing with a lot of new things that there is little focus on him as a character and more on other characters/drama. The book starts of with the family being detained in separate rooms and the story involves all of their perspectives which I personally found boring and I guess all the commentary within these sections was pointless for me, the side comments were weird and awkward and to be honest this aspect of the book was pointless, there was no big resolve at the end.
When Amir is in Rome a lot happens and there are various characters introduced but because everything moves very fast it is quite confusing because Amir changes his mind about people and his situation very quickly so I do not know how to feel about these side characters. I did not expect so much focus on his life in Rome, honestly the plot was not what I thought it would be and I expected religion to play a bigger part in the book. Also, because this is a YA novel, when Amir ran away, I expected him to hang out with people his own age but most of his friends are way older than him.
The writing style was not for me, the book and Amir’s character felt flat and so even with everything going on I was bored and uninterested in the story, I skimmed read most of the book.
1/5