![]() ![]() There are other men in the story, including the flirtatious Aziz, a renowned poet and Nathan, a photographer with a lot of emotional baggage. In Crescent, Sirine may find true love with Hanif, a mysterious Iraqi scholar and friend of her uncle. ![]() Many men flock to her because of her looks and culinary talent, but she drifts from man to man. She doesn't know much about her heritage except through her cooking, which is wonderful. ![]() She is blond and beautiful and half Iraqi, and her parents died when she was 10, leaving her to be raised by her Iraqi uncle. This is the story of Sirine, a 39-year-old chef who has never found true love. I'm not sorry I read it, but I can't say I recommend it either. And yet, if I finish a book I didn't like, I get really annoyed with myself for wasting the time on it. I am at best ambivalent about this book. I read more than 100 pages and I just wasn't in love with it, but I still forced myself to finish it. I think the fact that I've owned this book for so long, I really, really wanted it to be good. ![]() I finally picked this one up since it's on the pile of the books I've owned the longest - more than six years of being schlepped from house to house. Crescent is one of the many books that have been filling up my TBR shelf for years, staring at me every time I walk by with a library book. ![]()
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