ninjapanda 's review for:

Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi

3.0

funny lighthearted slow-paced

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Rep: Muslim biracial lesbian MC (Persian & Indian), Jewish Mexican lesbian MC 

This is an enemies to lovers wlw story. It has good sapphic and POC rep. The two mcs already have their sexuality figured out, so it was nice to see that instead of a coming out story for a change. It also doesn’t mention any labels. Both of the characters and their families are POC. 

I liked that Rachel’s movie was about Helen of Troy, because I love Greek mythology. Kinda random but I also liked that Sana was playing Overwatch lol. I used to play that game all the time. 

The story and characters were alright, but I found myself losing interest at some points. I just wasn’t super into the story. It was ok, not great. 

The narrator is good. Only issue is that the audio got muffled for a phrase or two 3 times, around 32% in. It’s cool that the author got to narrate her own book. I also find that it would have maybe been good to have a dual-narration to help distinguish the two characters a bit better because I had a hard time doing that. She also didn’t do any accents or change her voice much when speaking as other characters unfortunately. 

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an audio ARC of this book.