Good

I enjoyed it but perhaps not as much as other books of hers. I liked the storyline and characters but I wasn't gripped so giving it 4 not 5.

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A story about friendship and ethics

The first half of Shamsie’s novel read like an
Autobiography of every teenager in Pakistan in the late 1980s and 1990s. Very evocative of a time in Pakistan where classism and social
Mores dictated friendships and relationships. The second half touched on a lot of modern themes, such as immigration issues, facial recognition and privacy concerns, power and profit over morality. While the author covered a wide spectrum of issues, particularly covering recent policy developments on immigrants, the second half of the novel read more like a leftist manifesto, trying to evoke outrage in recent policies towards immigrants as Kamila herself has been . I felt the ending was very abrupt and didn’t answer the question of why are lives become divergent or how childhood relationships and interactions change
or dont change us. Maybe friendship, like
any relationship, is just a tool to realise who we really are.

not great much too girly. Home fire was superior

I couldn't get Interested in the long karachi story. the London bits were better. overall home fire was a far better book. disappointed as liked her previous works

Too breathy

The subject interested me but unfortunately the reader was too breathy (end of every sentence) and I couldn’t enjoy