This is not my kind of read, I DFN on the 20%, and I don't think I am coming back to read it. I’m sure it is a good book for some people, not for me. I'm just writing a review because I don't know how to get the book out of my library, as I said, I don't think I will be reading it.

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Not much for me to say about this book. I gave it a lower score because of the choppy writing style. The story itself is beautiful and interesting. But unfortunately the style in which it was written was not as beautiful. Don't take this in a harsh way. Because like I said the story is great. Certain scenes I felt were unnecessary and out of place. Like the ones when the pov switched to the father. I found his character uninteresting and during those scenes I found myself skimming to get to the scenes with our main character. But by the time I got involved fully with the story was too far in for me. Overall 3.25 out of 5 is my final score. Not everyone will like the work of authors while other people love them. In my opinion this book fell flat, but that doesn't mean it will for others. I'm just another soul living, reading, and writing reviews on books.

Highly recommend!! This book is a definite page-turner! You'll be left thinking about the story long after you put the book down. First book to read by this author but definitely not my last!

DNF at 26%.
On paper, Other Names for Love sounds perfect. Promising to tell a tale of how toxic masculinity affects a young boy, a tale of father and sons, and sons falling in love with other boys, Other Names for Love fails at the most basic, and important, part of storytelling.
I'm no stranger to flowery prose—in most cases, I love it. Rich, thoughtfully crafted sentences a lot of times make a book for me. In this case, it ruined it. The prose was choppy, overstuffed with different kinds of styles that didn't flow together. In fact, it rendered the book barely readable, with the writing style coming off as pretentious, as if it is trying to be something it isn't.
Intertwined with Fahad's POV is also his father's, and his chapters are the worse. The disorienting prose becomes even blurrier, with unnamed characters appearing left and right, unquoted dialogue and a messy attempt at stream of consciousness that does nothing but confuse the reader further.
And as for the main romantic relationship between Fahad and Ali, I couldn't find it in myself to symphatize with them. One of my biggest qualms is that their introduction happens in Fahad's father's POV, which, when it moves back to Fahad's, makes their relationship feel rushed and out of place in the narrative, seeing as we didn't get to see his first impression of his supposed love interest.

Thanks to Netgalley and FSG for the ebook. At age sixteen, Fahad is taken from London to spend the summer with his father, Rafik, in rural Pakistan. Rafik, a large landowner and regional political leader, hopes that with his guidance that he can toughen up Fahad. Fahad shows little interest in his surroundings until he meets a boy his age named Ali. Their friendship leads to a brief affair and then Fahad’s fleeing back to London. The second part of the book concerns Rafik’s rise in National politics. The third section shows us a middle aged Fahad, an author and university professor who lives with his boyfriend, who is summoned back to Pakistan as his aging parents are approaching financial ruin after Rafik’s two failed attempts to run for PM. Fahad has to try and sell the family farm, but also try and find Ali all these years after their brief affair.