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A review by vi_llainvibes
We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon
3.0
A lot of mixed feeling about this one.
First of all, I saw a lot of Muslim people say they don't like this book because of bad representation and I can definitely see their point. At the same time I feel like (at least in my experience) young people just simply don't practise religion as strictly as their parents or grandparents. I think people in America, especially, have this view that... I'm not sure how to phrase it. That you're either fully religious or if you're not then you basically don't practise your religion at all? I think faith is something a little different for every person and there isn't always going to be a good representation of what it may be to us in media? The truth is that sometimes author write about religion character to "diversify" their... audience? And it's wrong, that's clear. But sometimes they will do it because it's the story that came to their minds one day. And the sad truth is that we will never truly know which one it is.
What I wanted to praise this book for however is the display of how complicated life of teenagers and young adults can be. How it's easy to make mistakes and get lost in everyday problems that are important to us that we ignore our friends or act selfishly even if it's not meant to do harm. How not everyone has it figured out and doesn't need to but it's still difficult to deal with. And that mental is health is something we all struggle with at one point or another in our lives. It can me a lifelong fight or a woobly period but it is normal and it doesn't define us.
Quinn and Taren had their fare share of struggles along the way but they eventually figure some things out and were able to learn from it and understand that a compromise every once in a while isn't such a bad thing.
First of all, I saw a lot of Muslim people say they don't like this book because of bad representation and I can definitely see their point. At the same time I feel like (at least in my experience) young people just simply don't practise religion as strictly as their parents or grandparents. I think people in America, especially, have this view that... I'm not sure how to phrase it. That you're either fully religious or if you're not then you basically don't practise your religion at all? I think faith is something a little different for every person and there isn't always going to be a good representation of what it may be to us in media? The truth is that sometimes author write about religion character to "diversify" their... audience? And it's wrong, that's clear. But sometimes they will do it because it's the story that came to their minds one day. And the sad truth is that we will never truly know which one it is.
What I wanted to praise this book for however is the display of how complicated life of teenagers and young adults can be. How it's easy to make mistakes and get lost in everyday problems that are important to us that we ignore our friends or act selfishly even if it's not meant to do harm. How not everyone has it figured out and doesn't need to but it's still difficult to deal with. And that mental is health is something we all struggle with at one point or another in our lives. It can me a lifelong fight or a woobly period but it is normal and it doesn't define us.
Quinn and Taren had their fare share of struggles along the way but they eventually figure some things out and were able to learn from it and understand that a compromise every once in a while isn't such a bad thing.