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A review by rainbow_colored_glasses
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
~ This audiobook was provided by NetGalley in exchange of an honest review ~
❇ I LOVE LOVE LOVE BOOKS WITH SOME KIND OF DEADLINE ON IT!!;
❇ strong women;
❇ jewish and muslim rep/MCs;
❇ sapphic;
❇ At first the fact that the author narrated the audiobook made me skeptical but the more I listened to it, the more I feel in love with it (and Aminah Mae Safi's voice- please);
❇ my beautiful blonde golden retriever jock;
I can confidently say that I've already found a new favorite author this year!
* The karaoke scene gave me Red White and Royal Blue flashbacks and I live for it;
* I ALWAYS wanted a helix piercing so this book just made it all worse;
❇Quotes:
"Sana knew she would be rebuffed, she asked anyway. She was a one-woman masochism parade today"
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"Rachel had just sacrificed her dignity on the alter of cinematic production"
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"God, did beautiful people annoy Rachel"
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"Also she's really small, I feel like small people are really powerful"
"Says the guy who looks like he could smash a watermelon between his two bare hands"
"But I've gotta duck to go into buildings and I could never sneak around anywhere, I'm too tall"
"What a difficult life you must have had"
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"For Rachel that had always been something outwardly about stepping onto a set, seeing all the props, and the set pieces and the camera equipament and thinking: I'm the god of this world"
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"Nothing like a conversation with Sana Khan to throw off the rhythm of her entire life"
-
"It's better to screw up on your own terms than to screw up in somebody else's. It's better to have something you know it's yours, rather than what everyone tells you that you should want"
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"And now everywhere Sana touched was going up in flames like a storehouse of old *Sally oid*( I'm not sure how It's written) did before the flick of a single match. Arson had never been so wonderful, so dizzying"
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"Sana laughed. God, that laugh. Rachel could listen to it forever and probably still not get tired of the sound"
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"And logically, Sana knew she was in a room full of strangers singing a serenade to another girl, knew she was declaring herself in a big, public way, but she kept on singing, kept on staring at Rachel because right now they were the only two people who mattered, the only two people in the room. The only two people in the world. The only two lovers left alive"
-
"The nicest thing about life - and not the movies. Is that there's no curtains, no 'The End'. You can always write your own story, you can always start over and begin again. It doesn't have to make sense or go in a straight line it happens, you make it happen and while you don't get a do-over, if you're still alive and still kicking you do still have time ahead of you"
-
"Sana Khan, you are awfully full of yourself"
"I know" Sanah took a step closer "I promise not to start a war if that helps"
"I can't say I blame you if you did" Rachel reached out and let her fingers throught Sana's ponytail. "Then, what do you want?"
Sana's breaths were coming rapidly but with a lightness that she never experienced before, there was no lingering awful tension, just hope grinding trought her, just the sensation that the best have yet to come "I want you to tell me how you really feel"
"Oh" said Sana "That's easy, I love you"
❇ I LOVE LOVE LOVE BOOKS WITH SOME KIND OF DEADLINE ON IT!!;
❇ strong women;
❇ jewish and muslim rep/MCs;
❇ sapphic;
❇ At first the fact that the author narrated the audiobook made me skeptical but the more I listened to it, the more I feel in love with it (and Aminah Mae Safi's voice- please);
❇ my beautiful blonde golden retriever jock;
I can confidently say that I've already found a new favorite author this year!
* I ALWAYS wanted a helix piercing so this book just made it all worse;
❇Quotes:
"Sana knew she would be rebuffed, she asked anyway. She was a one-woman masochism parade today"
-
"Rachel had just sacrificed her dignity on the alter of cinematic production"
-
"God, did beautiful people annoy Rachel"
-
"Also she's really small, I feel like small people are really powerful"
"Says the guy who looks like he could smash a watermelon between his two bare hands"
"But I've gotta duck to go into buildings and I could never sneak around anywhere, I'm too tall"
"What a difficult life you must have had"
-
"For Rachel that had always been something outwardly about stepping onto a set, seeing all the props, and the set pieces and the camera equipament and thinking: I'm the god of this world"
-
"Nothing like a conversation with Sana Khan to throw off the rhythm of her entire life"
-
"It's better to screw up on your own terms than to screw up in somebody else's. It's better to have something you know it's yours, rather than what everyone tells you that you should want"
-
"And now everywhere Sana touched was going up in flames like a storehouse of old *Sally oid*( I'm not sure how It's written) did before the flick of a single match. Arson had never been so wonderful, so dizzying"
-
"Sana laughed. God, that laugh. Rachel could listen to it forever and probably still not get tired of the sound"
-
"And logically, Sana knew she was in a room full of strangers singing a serenade to another girl, knew she was declaring herself in a big, public way, but she kept on singing, kept on staring at Rachel because right now they were the only two people who mattered, the only two people in the room. The only two people in the world. The only two lovers left alive"
-
"The nicest thing about life - and not the movies. Is that there's no curtains, no 'The End'. You can always write your own story, you can always start over and begin again. It doesn't have to make sense or go in a straight line it happens, you make it happen and while you don't get a do-over, if you're still alive and still kicking you do still have time ahead of you"
-
"Sana Khan, you are awfully full of yourself"
"I know" Sanah took a step closer "I promise not to start a war if that helps"
"I can't say I blame you if you did" Rachel reached out and let her fingers throught Sana's ponytail. "Then, what do you want?"
Sana's breaths were coming rapidly but with a lightness that she never experienced before, there was no lingering awful tension, just hope grinding trought her, just the sensation that the best have yet to come "I want you to tell me how you really feel"
"Oh" said Sana "That's easy, I love you"