3.3

The portray of Muslims was really good. I never met a Muslim, so i personally don’t know that much about them. Though i did my research about this book and everyone including some Muslims thought that it was portrayed well. The author is Muslim so i trust that it was portrayed correctly. There are some words written in another language.

It was interesting learning about the culture. Most of the book is set in Doha, which is in Quatar (by Africa and Asia). It was nice to have a book set in an area that isn’t the United States.

The beginning was really good. It was a good pace, the romance didn’t move too fast and we got to see Zaynub view on Islamophobia. My favorite parts of the story was when we got to see Islamophobia and how Zaynub reacts to it. I loved it even more when i found out that all the evens related to that was based on personal experiences.

At times the book was slow. The characters were kinda boring. I liked seeing Hannah and Adam’s sibling relationship but they got boring sometimes. The only character i was somewhat interested in was Zaynub but that was mostly because she was the one of the few characters reacting to Islamophobia.

When i started reading this book i thought that it would be similar to The Hate U Give with the character rebelling against racism. There were only a few times that that happens. Most of the book Zaynub is around people that doesn’t care that she’s Muslims or the book forgot about the Islamophobia part of the story. There is only one person in Doha that gives her a hard time but that’s it. It is only three people in the whole book that doesn’t like Muslims.

There was also a part if the story that Adam and Zaynub were talking about they liked eachother but since that would be breaking the rules they used the word water when they were talking about eachother. I kinda wished they would of used something else because it almost sounded like they were talking about sex explecially when they were kept on saying that they were thirsty.

There was a argument that felt like it was there just to make the book longer. Litterly by the end if each if there chapters they weren’t mad anymore. All it took was a character saying that they shouldn’t be mad at each other then suddenly they were fine.

Adam falls in love too quick. He really liked Zaynub on the first meeting. By the third meeting he fell in love. Zaynub was a bit slower but she also fell in love too fast.

I did like having the book set outside the united states but at the same time i wished that we could of stayed and see a bit more of the plot with Fencer. It was kinda in the background.

The ending wasn’t terrible but it could of been better. It kinda just happened so that Zaynub can have her happy ending.

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