Mannat Ali’s Reviews > Where No Shadow Stays > Status Update

This book was so good man. Sara Hashem is so beautiful with words it’s flabbergasting. She places every word, every letter with so much precision it’s infuriating. One could only wish they could do it like her. Idk why she insists on leaving tragic endings on all her books but I guess that’s what makes them so impactful. All her characters are so terrifyingly human it’s exceptional. RIP Mina.

Sara Hashem genuinely requires jail time.

“Jesse’s problem is not the lack of a soul, but the excess of one.”

“We aren’t square parts of an identity or uneven pieces struggling to fit anywhere they’re placed. We will never be fully one or the other, but we can be something third. Something new and special and just as whole as those who came before us.”

“We might not be able to pass along all the stories, we might mix up the details of some traditions, but we will pass along a new kind of strength. For better or worse, our children won’t grow up like this, frozen on the threshold between two worlds. They won’t feel like they’re on the outskirts of their own identities, afraid to venture too far into one side and lose sight of the other.”

Sara Hashem knows how to write horror. I’m really liking this world now

“He treats his life like it’s a plant he never remembers to water but can’t quite bring himself to throw out.”

Sara Hashem just knows how to write.

Sara Hashem you’re testing me with this one. This is some like horror Urban fantasy type shit. I don’t like seeing text messages in a book. Only because it’s Sara Hashem I’ll give it a chance. I don’t think I’ve ventured out of fantasy for a very long time.