Status Updates From حامض حلو

There are some tedious conversations via phone - used as plot devices - and they bounce around. Hebe the central character is lacking any empathy or core qualities in terms of engaging the reader or believable substance that allows us to see and know her and the other pivotal character lacks page presence also - so, multiple stylistic disappointments - despite the riveting theme.

"It amused her that Hannah, who longed for romantic love, should think of her as 'a poor old thing' whereas Hebe, who thought of love with detachment, as an indulgence for others, should long since have correctly assumed her to be a retired lady of pleasure."