The Five Circles

When you’re desperately searching for someone else’s truth and stumble upon your own truth, a word of advice: Stop searching. Stop immediately.
“Take my body and free my soul.” This short sentence was the end of a great novel, The Five Circles, the latest novel by the creative writer Osama Al-Muslim, published at the end of 2019. It’s a separate novel from his popular series.
Because Osama is an exceptional writer, you can’t read any of his novels without finding a connection if one of them occurs in one of his novels.
In The Five Circles, he mentions the ring with the green stone, the Sindhi magician, the Arab witch, and others, all of which are connected to events in other novels. This is a clever display of the author’s writing and a wonderful interweaving of his writing.
Although I don’t like reading novels that contain a bit of horror, I couldn’t close the last page until I finished it in less than a day. This is the nature of Osama’s readers: as soon as we start reading the first page, we continue to the end. A beautiful novel set between different eras, ending in our own time in the 1980s in the Arabian Peninsula. It ends in tragedy, though painful, and it was the best solution for others.