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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
This is the most terribly edited book I've ever encountered
reflective
medium-paced
In this third installment of the life of Sultana, she gives us another look inside her family. Her niece is married off to an old, abusive man. She is treated in an abhorrent manner. Sultana also discovers that another family member has a harem going on. I suppose a Saudi royal family has some wild cards in it the same as others. It is amazing what people get themselves into, especially when they think they have the protection of being a royal. Customs and religions are also so different around the world. This was an alright book. I need to read the rest of them, but I only have these three.
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
It has been quite some time since I read the first two books of this trilogy. The life of Princess Sultana has been of interest to me the previous times. I was taken back with the revelations and the truth spoken without fear about women in Saudi Arabia. This book held quite the turmoils in it but as my mind developed greatly the past years, I had less of an interest in it as a book but greatly as a cause. There were many great moments in this book where Sultana stood up for women and even when the situation turned sour, she remained unfazed. I also got to read about her own personal issues with drinking and it was a great example of how we must defeat our own weaknesses and demons in order to live out the life we planned.
I love Sutana! She's a unique kind of women!!! This book helped me realize how important the Islamic Church is to Saudi Arabia's government and how the woman in that country live.
This book contributed a lot to my general culture and made me want to fight even more for woman's right's!
This book contributed a lot to my general culture and made me want to fight even more for woman's right's!
I find it important to read the stories of people who live very different lives than I do. I think Princess Sultana’s story is important and I feel it sheds a light on the things she experiences in Saudi Arabia. Stories like hers are important, the stories of women are important.
The book has all the drama and emotion. A woman realizing her strengths and weaknesses. You could capture little bursts of beautiful description and metaphors; but the writing could have been better.
And then you realize all this is real. As real as it gets. And the perspectives come crashing down on you. And I'm reluctant to call it a good story/book because of this very fact.
To anyone who wants to read about a female who fights for her rights, this is a good book.
And then you realize all this is real. As real as it gets. And the perspectives come crashing down on you. And I'm reluctant to call it a good story/book because of this very fact.
To anyone who wants to read about a female who fights for her rights, this is a good book.
While the horror of Saudi Arabia's society is brought out in this book as with others, I can't help notice a few things that Princess Sultana fails to notice.
1. There is an element of drama. Sultana keeps saying how she is going to stand up for abused women in a very dramatic way, but it turns out there is nothing she can do in these instances other than weep. However, at the very end of this book, she finally does make a stand.
2. I am a bit confused about how it is said Saudi Arabia liberated its slaves and yet, it is totally within the law to buy and own women as slaves. Not only sanctioned by law, but it is accepted in society as well. They also say that it is against the law and religion to mess around with those of the opposite gender, and yet that is openly done by males.
3. Sultana and her tribe seem to be very much deluded by their religion. Unspeakable horrors happen but they do not see how God seems to be pretty silent. Polygamy is all fine according to the religion and their Prophet, and yet Sultana obviously sees a problem with it, which is contradictory.
4. Sultana seems so empathetic about the suffering of others and is oppressed herself by her society, but she doesn't bat an eye about the horrifying torment inflicted on animals who have their throats slit for their palate pleasure. Whole animals roasted and sitting on plates and no one is disturbed. Barbaric. Sultana's hubby and son go out to kill too, on their "hunts". Only Amani gives a damn about that kind of thing. The irony.
1. There is an element of drama. Sultana keeps saying how she is going to stand up for abused women in a very dramatic way, but it turns out there is nothing she can do in these instances other than weep. However, at the very end of this book, she finally does make a stand.
2. I am a bit confused about how it is said Saudi Arabia liberated its slaves and yet, it is totally within the law to buy and own women as slaves. Not only sanctioned by law, but it is accepted in society as well. They also say that it is against the law and religion to mess around with those of the opposite gender, and yet that is openly done by males.
3. Sultana and her tribe seem to be very much deluded by their religion. Unspeakable horrors happen but they do not see how God seems to be pretty silent. Polygamy is all fine according to the religion and their Prophet, and yet Sultana obviously sees a problem with it, which is contradictory.
4. Sultana seems so empathetic about the suffering of others and is oppressed herself by her society, but she doesn't bat an eye about the horrifying torment inflicted on animals who have their throats slit for their palate pleasure. Whole animals roasted and sitting on plates and no one is disturbed. Barbaric. Sultana's hubby and son go out to kill too, on their "hunts". Only Amani gives a damn about that kind of thing. The irony.