liroa15 's review for:

Mirage by Somaiya Daud
3.0

Probably 3.5 stars. I really liked a lot of this, although I felt the love story was really weak. It was interesting to me to see a lot of Al-Andalus in this, even though I don't think that was the author's intention, and the Vath certainly can't be compared directly to the Spanish. However, there were some things about this that seemed really slow, especially since the end seemed to come very abruptly.

It's somewhat obvious that it is a debut novel, but it is a strong one and I'm excited to see where this goes.