Cup Of Tea

Namal

Rating: 5 stars.

Here we go.

Now, I am rereading this book but I have, to be honest, opened it countless times in the middle of the night when I suddenly start missing it. It's a great story, great drama.

You can expect a new twist in every turn of the page but it's not like an Indian drama where new things keep coming up ( ahem, another novel is but that's a story for another day). All the twists, mysteries come to together to form a beautiful plot. Every character has a story, they are bot just there to fill blank spaces of the lead's family, siblings, friends.
They are their own people, how it is in the real world.

Now we will get into the details of the characters.

Hashim Kardar
The only character that has me hooked to the story. It's been maybe a year since I have read it first but this man has never left my " list loves of my life."
Anyway.

I adore his character, the way he is written. I think, to be honest, he is the best and main character of the novel. The lead, among all the other beautiful characters. I undertake Faris is the hero, but honestly, Faris couldn't impress me as much as this man did.

This man is on the same level on my list as Salar Sikandar. Now that's saying something.

His character is fascinating, emanating power from every freaking pore of it. Every aspect is perfect. His character arch is perfect. He is strong at the start, perfect along the middle but at the end, I am still a little bitter that he devastated at the end.

Destroyed.

And I did not expect that my Hashim will fall down this low, this devastated. He honestly nearly lost his mind, his cool. Which was what I loved. His cool, his grace, the way he smiled at his opponent even if he was helpless. The way was never defeat, never expected defeat. It was arrogance, whatever, that brought him down but he was the best.

But he lost his cool at the end which can be expected because when you destroy a man, you destroy what he holds the most close, his power. It was hard for me to see him breaking down like this but he was cornered from every end. His business, his brother, his mother, his daughter, the woman he loved. Everyone stabbed him in the back like a bitch. He was a grey character and Nemrah herself says that Hashim was her favourite to write.

He was a little bitch but I loved him, totally love him.

I read the novel sometimes just because I miss him. He has a different class or maybe it's just something I am attracted to. But every little thing he does, how he talks, how he is with his family, how he is the man everyone goes to for everything. He has a solution for everything. I absolutely cannot stress enough how much I love him.

And I did not like his end, I am very bitter about it and I am very sad about it. How dare you do that to my Hashim?

Also, personally I think that his love-life was not explored that perfectly, like the other aspects of his character. He could do much much much much more in a more romantic way but I understand that he was taken as a villain.

Abdar, the woman he loved, he killed with his own hands. He has also killed two other people but that's beside the point. His relationship with Abdar, I did not like. Okay, Hashim can like someone like her. Maybe. I don't like her.

But how he pursued her, how he let her be like that for so long until he finally decided her end. I don't think that's very much like my Hashim.

I liked it with Hanin, to be honest. I would have liked to see him and Hanin together somehow but that was very impossible. But it was also very interesting. The chapter where Hanin goes to the court and Hashim crosses her as a witness,( " Mey Hanin hun and mey aam hun" ), have you ever seen something hotter than this chapter in the entire freaking world?

I would have loved to see him more romantically involved and more hashim-like about it.
That's why I want to write a story with a character inspired by him so that I can finally give him a good romantic relationship in my head like he deserves.

Also, I adored his relationship with Saadi. Adored. He loved him and I know it. That's all.

Khawar and him? Gorgeous. I am in love with every aspect of this man. Okay?

Anyway, I will read this novel again, only for this man.

Faris

Faris Ghazi. Came slowly into the story, slowly showing his true colours, his planning, his role.
At the start, to be honest, I didn't like his character. I still don't that much. He is a good hero, good character but not someone like Hashim that I absolutely love.

In my opinion, after reading the story the first time, I felt like Faris' hero-like characteristics were introduced very later in the novel that's why I didn't develop any particular feelings for him, since I was knee-deep in love with Hashim.

Like about 1500 pages and till 1100 of them, Hashim's character has been glorified so of course I will the man more.

Zumar

I like her. A strong woman, a stubborn woman, a clever woman. I like her a lot.

Hanin

I love her too. Loved her because she loved Hashim and you know, it was very interesting to read about her. Clever young woman, I stan.

Saadi

Hamara Saadi is a good mama's boy. I like him too but he's a kid in my head. For me, a character has to have a little darkness, be a bit grey, have some demons for me to love them like that. He was a good guy. I liked him though, didn't make me want to smack my head in the wall with his goodness. (Maybe, he did. Definitely did.)

Abdar

Ew. I hate her. Nonsense aurat. To be honest, I very much hated her and I hate her for taking Hashim's love interest's spot. HE DESERVED BETTER.

Phew.