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A review by roseleebooks
This Book Won't Burn by Samira Ahmed
challenging
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
5.0
This book is outside my usual genre choice, but I'm so glad that I read it.
It is a contemporary YA novel about a high schooler, Noor, whose life is upended in her last few months senior year.
I listened to this on audiobook and really loved the narration. It immerses you in the story. Noor is unflinching in her willingness to stand up for herself and others, but the consequences are not hidden from the reader. We feel her rage, her sorrow, her hope. It is a story filled with hope, but as Noor states, "hope is a verb" and should lead to action.
The book speaks directly to book banning and censorship, as well as the politics that push for those things. Ahmed's writing does not hold back from showing what the impacts of trying to control what people read are, as well as how standing up against those types of policies can be met with anger and violence.
I could not stop listening to this. I loved the references and quotes from commonly banned books, and the statement it makes is so effective. Highly recommend if you are at all inclined to read YA stories.
It is a contemporary YA novel about a high schooler, Noor, whose life is upended in her last few months senior year.
I listened to this on audiobook and really loved the narration. It immerses you in the story. Noor is unflinching in her willingness to stand up for herself and others, but the consequences are not hidden from the reader. We feel her rage, her sorrow, her hope. It is a story filled with hope, but as Noor states, "hope is a verb" and should lead to action.
The book speaks directly to book banning and censorship, as well as the politics that push for those things. Ahmed's writing does not hold back from showing what the impacts of trying to control what people read are, as well as how standing up against those types of policies can be met with anger and violence.
I could not stop listening to this. I loved the references and quotes from commonly banned books, and the statement it makes is so effective. Highly recommend if you are at all inclined to read YA stories.