Official Review: The Pahlavi Sword by Jemil Metti

[Anusha Thatavarthi]

This seems like an interesting and thought-provoking book. It shows how our perspectives when presented with a choice between duty and family. It also shows how the villians of the history believes what they are doing was right and deceive themselves. Congratulations to the author on BOTD!

[Fem187]

The administration of torture for any reason is bad not to mention just of political ideas. Loyalty to the state or patriotism will shift when your family is involved. This is the situation Captain Jamsheed Al-Armaghani found himself and it's a difficult situation. Thanks for the review.

[Wordlessly]

This story brings to light the incarceration dissenters faced. It also serves as an inspiration as it shows the strength of endurance of humanity. Thank you for the detailed review.

[AvidBibliophile]

Missions, targets, official duties, dynasties, and political pressures that are unavoidable... Now that sounds like quite a plot of mystery, intrigue, deception, and ultimate discovery! Thank you for your informative review.

[Onyii1299]

hard choices between work and family sounds interesting like to find out what happened next

[Bigwig1973]

I only read the sample of this book. Cristinaro does a nice job of summarizing the book and makes many good points. One being that she was surprised that the author chose a not so nice guy, Jamsheed, as the protagonist. It is most certainly curious. The sample did not reveal, as far as I recall, the reason for the name of the book.
It was interesting to have that touched upon in the review. I'm a bit frightened to see it implied that there are more explicit torture scenes in the book - such tactics were mentioned in the sample, but there wasn't a lot of detail. The writer does a very good job describing the characters, focusing on little things like noting what Jamsheed is thinking as he is looking at Commander Nabizadeh's chubby legs, and making us aware that Jamsheed himself is even uncertain whether or not the king even knows what is going on.

[EudoraMac]

To think that the events and realities detailed in this novel and brilliantly laid out in this review actually took place gives me the shivers.

It is indeed, a dark world that we live in.

[Happyka126]

This sounds like an historical novel with inspirational story on how people were tortured, dehumanised and undergone all sorts of bad treatment in prison. It's a scary book for me I think I'll pass this on. Thanks for your review.

[monicamu]

From the review, I gather that this complex story not only explores the moral conflicts faced by the main character, but also gives insight to what are still recent events in the Middle East. It sounds like a thoroughly absorbing story, told in an interesting way.I enjoy these kinds of stories,where I can learn something.

[Tfranc]

This is quite thorough review of a very difficult book from what I can see. Going back and forth with incarcerations, dehumanizing some individuals. It will certainly make for an interesting book for historical fiction lovers.

[Lorraine De Vos]

Thank you for sharing your review with us. The violence, politics and drama is not something I’m currently interested in reading about.

[Miks_solon]

In my own interpretation, the central argument of the book suggests that there are consequences wheb putting a blind eye to what's happening around us. I believe, this is very relevant today. Even though it has happened in the past, people still never learned. Social activism and political criticisms are viewed as atrocious until now. I'm looking forward on reading this book. Well done!

[Cynthia_Oluchi]

The narrative strategy seems to be an interesting one. However, I'm not sure this is the kind of book I'd love to read. Congrats on BOTD!

[sharon titus]

Sounds like an interesting read, nicely reviewed

[blessing_bona]

I'm sure that reading this book will squeeze my heart and I'll drop a tear. While torture is not new, no one should go through any of it. Even for political reasons.
Nonetheless, this will make a good read.