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birdinflight1's review against another edition
4.0
Heartbreaking story of the reality of being a child bride and the patriarchal system that values honor over women's rights. Nujood's courage and tenacity to change her horrendous situation is inspirational. I enjoyed reading about the lawyer who helped Nujood and thought often of my niece's dream to be a human rights lawyer helping women and girls in the middle east.
sydneyqamar's review against another edition
3.0
Mabrouk, Nujood! The content of this book is initially but fascinating and ultimately inspirational. The epilogue is especially uplifting, as Delphine Minoui illuminates the resulting outcry in defense of child wives and other girls' petitions for divorce. The book also dives into Yemeni culture well. Although, writing as a ten-year-old, while intentional and adding to the pathos of the story, detracted from my personal experience with the book as I tend to prefer more elaborate prose.
rfrondy's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
laurenkreinces's review against another edition
4.0
I think this is the first time I actually enjoyed summer reading....except for all of the work outside of reading.
blairfrank's review against another edition
3.0
Every culture celebrates and honors different aspects of life, but child brides should never be considered a cause for celebration. Reading about her daily/nightly torment is disgusting and heart-wrenching. This is only one story of success. With a lack of documentation there are too many paperless trails to follow in a country that demeans and leaves their women uneducated.
x_librarian's review against another edition
4.0
Nujood's story is a sad one, but her determination and sense of hope keeps the book from being unbearable. The book is a unique mixture of child-like simplicity and unexpected maturity. Nujood's tale is told fully, but without graphic details. My one qualm is I would have liked a chapter discussing how the book was put together and how much of the story was told in Nujood's own words.
sienna_canread's review against another edition
4.0
It was very good. It probably was in between a 3.5 and a 4 stars for me. It’s very short to read and the story was quite simple.
katie1031's review against another edition
2.0
Nujood's story is important. However, this book was translated from Arabic to French and then from French to English. Things get so lost in chain translation, this story may very well be, is even likely told very differently in its native langue. Unfortunately something about the English translation felt sanitized and uncomfortable. Like the story had been given to a Hollywood writer. In addition, a more journalist approach would have been better when it came to telling this story. The story is written in first person, the language is colorful and wordy, clearly not how ten-year-old girls internal dialogue would sound. This is the story of a child's trauma, written by someone else much too close to the time of the events that took place. This should have been her story to tell, I was under the impression that this was a memoir when I picked it up, I was clearly very wrong. This felt exploitive and while (as I said before) some of this is due to the translation, not all of it is.