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A review by amakaazie
Good Intentions by Kasim Ali
3.0
3.5
I have 3 black daughters living in Uk. I hope I raise them to know their worth and never to date or fall in love with a racist.
It was heart wrenching reading about Yasmina, an intelligent black woman from a good middle class family allowing herself to be treated like a dirty secret by a racist boyfriend who uses his family’s as an excuse to hide his bigotry.
The fact that this is fiction doesn’t mean this is not reality for a lot of black women. The desire to be loved and have a family usually makes a lot of women ignore red flags. But ignoring racism? Being kept as a secret? No! That’s too much!
I despised Nur’s character and I’m glad about the ending!
I did a little epilogue in my head where Yasmina ends up with a handsome man who worships the ground she walks on (preferably a black man), and Nur ends up miserable with an “acceptable wife”…
The storytelling was excellent! But I hated the story because it’s quite relatable. I know a black woman married to a white man who says racists things and she keeps laughing it off as him being silly
I have 3 black daughters living in Uk. I hope I raise them to know their worth and never to date or fall in love with a racist.
It was heart wrenching reading about Yasmina, an intelligent black woman from a good middle class family allowing herself to be treated like a dirty secret by a racist boyfriend who uses his family’s as an excuse to hide his bigotry.
The fact that this is fiction doesn’t mean this is not reality for a lot of black women. The desire to be loved and have a family usually makes a lot of women ignore red flags. But ignoring racism? Being kept as a secret? No! That’s too much!
I despised Nur’s character and I’m glad about the ending!
I did a little epilogue in my head where Yasmina ends up with a handsome man who worships the ground she walks on (preferably a black man), and Nur ends up miserable with an “acceptable wife”…
The storytelling was excellent! But I hated the story because it’s quite relatable. I know a black woman married to a white man who says racists things and she keeps laughing it off as him being silly