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A review by drridareads
Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
3.0
2.5 stars rounded to 3
Seeing someone like yourself represented in book is no big deal for a lot of people. But this is my first book a Muslim protagonist.
Like a lot of people, I was worried about how Islam would've been represented. Fortunately it was pretty good.
The discussed some issues like judging people and others faced my Muslims in both Muslim and non-muslim societies.
I really liked Janna wasn't perfect. We aren't. We too get crushes even on non-Muslims. We get carried away by looks too sometimes. We're normal people.
So Janna a Muslim girl has a crush on Jeremy a non-Muslim. Which is all fine. Except that behaviour is stalkerish. She hasn't said hello to the guy yet but seen his house on google maps? Unacceptable.
I feel like the author tried to encooprate so much stuff into a book for some sort of checklist. I felt like some parts sensitive like sexual harassment weren't played out that well. Personally I feel like when going through this I cannot simultaneously have a crush, specially if that guys is the assaulter's friend. It just felt very jumpy between Farooq and Jeremy. And after this just some funny YouTube video cannot make you feel good.
I did however like the idea of Niqabi Ninjas. Got disappointed when I didn't find it on YouTube :/
Seeing someone like yourself represented in book is no big deal for a lot of people. But this is my first book a Muslim protagonist.
Like a lot of people, I was worried about how Islam would've been represented. Fortunately it was pretty good.
The discussed some issues like judging people and others faced my Muslims in both Muslim and non-muslim societies.
I really liked Janna wasn't perfect. We aren't. We too get crushes even on non-Muslims. We get carried away by looks too sometimes. We're normal people.
So Janna a Muslim girl has a crush on Jeremy a non-Muslim. Which is all fine. Except that behaviour is stalkerish. She hasn't said hello to the guy yet but seen his house on google maps? Unacceptable.
I feel like the author tried to encooprate so much stuff into a book for some sort of checklist. I felt like some parts sensitive like sexual harassment weren't played out that well. Personally I feel like when going through this I cannot simultaneously have a crush, specially if that guys is the assaulter's friend. It just felt very jumpy between Farooq and Jeremy. And after this just some funny YouTube video cannot make you feel good.
I did however like the idea of Niqabi Ninjas. Got disappointed when I didn't find it on YouTube :/