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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
A delightful retelling of pride and prejudice that takes the best elements of a beloved story and turns it into a new, unique tale.
I REALLY enjoyed this book! I love how Jalaluddin adapted the themes from Pride & Prejudice, modernized, and expanded on them!
I love a good retelling of any Jane Austen novel and this one for the bill. Ayesha is a young Muslim woman trying to navigate work, romance, and family. I really loved how relatable she was and The liberties that the author took with Pride and Prejudice. This book felt much more empowering than other retellings.
Love this one! Pride and Prejudice retelling done so well. It doesn't follow the Original Pride and Prejudice plot exactly, but has just enough beats to make it so fun.
This book has a bunch of stuff that's super enjoyable and a bunch of stuff that's super annoying. Definitely worth reading, but not as good as I wanted it to be.
Oh gosh, guys. This book was so charming and I could not stop smiling and you should read it now.
A modern Pride & Prejudice retelling set in Toronto's Muslim community, with all the twists and turns befitting an Austen novel - and of course, romance!
A modern Pride & Prejudice retelling set in Toronto's Muslim community, with all the twists and turns befitting an Austen novel - and of course, romance!
Really interesting to read and learn from this perspective on arranged marriages and the muslim community but I thought the writing itself was just okay.
Real score 5.00. I’m sure I just saw a thing I’ve never seen - the overall score has gone up just as I rated it. I made a difference. I’m surprised this doesn’t already have a higher score. I really enjoyed it. It’s kept me reading six hours after I planned to go to bed. There go my best laid plans. I loved Ayesha’s Shakespeare loving Nani. I think, at times, you have to look close for the comparisons to P&P but they’re there and I think I like my Retellings to stand out rather than to be exact. There has to be new in the old.
My first thought was, "Another Pride & Prejudice revamp?" But, dear reader, this one of the better P&P takes I've seen. I loved Ayesha, who was great at sticking up for others but not so much for herself. I loved Khalid (most of the time), despite his rigidity. There were some funny moments, some rage-filled moments (Sheila, Hafsa, & Farzana, I'm looking at you!), many sweet moments, and some romantic moments.
Delightful! Just an absolute joy. Ayesha is wonderful. It took me a while to warm up to Khalid as a love interest, but that's kind of the point, isn't it? I love how this story came together, the lessons learned, and the imperfect but sincere characters involved. I broke my ankle and am stuck at home until I can have surgery, and this book was exactly the brain candy I needed to get me through it.