A review by feliciasrose
The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood

3.5

Mix of audio and reading. Probably primarily reading the book. I'm having a difficult time rating this book. The family dynamics of both leads made me angry at different moments so my overall enjoyment was lowered by lack of "good parenting". I also felt like Safwa was easy to root for but also infuriating. She let the negativity of the people around her at times make her into a sometimes bad person but I guess that is what the author was trying to illustrate to us - people are a product of their upbringing. I thought Anvar was easily so likeable and the way that others around him treated him made me so frustrated. Personally I didn't often feel him being overly elitist as many depicted him to be. He was smart and he seemed to have solid grounding in how he felt about things. I don't think that is a negative. I found myself easily rooting for him and frustrated with the way others addressed his behavior. I can agree he did a poor job of reaching out to others but who could you trust when you spent so much time hiding yourself from people you should be able to be your true self with in life. I didn't like Zuha at times and found myself unwilling to root for the two of them but they had so many cute relationship moments that I had to be happy for them in the end. So yeah. Idk man. I'm between a 3 and a 4 so we'll put ourselves in the middle. Also want to add I chuckled at several points in this story and appreciated the humor brought to these very real situations - all life is not pain. I'd be interested to read more from Syed Masood.