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A review by nikolinaza
Misfit in Love by S.K. Ali
5.0
"When you see the world as divided, when you're prejudiced, it's not about expanding hearts--it's about shrinking your capacity to love."
In this sequel of 'Saints and Misfits', we followed Janna as the preparation for Sarah and Muhammad's nikah ceremony begins. Other than that, she's been longing to see Nuah, whom she had grown to love after their past shared events. But when they finally met, Nuah suddenly treated her differently, and before she could keep up with everything's that going on, there are new people who was going to enter her life and probably ruin whatever kind of peace she has in her head.
Okay this is ULTRA COOL. How could a middle grade book be so simple yet so complicated at the same time?
At first, I thought it was all about love between Janna and Nuah. I even imagined how they would end up together in the end. But of course, nothing is that simple. Life is full of obstacles, even more for a seventeen years old Janna.
This book has successfully tackle every issues it brought since the beginning--religion, culture, racism. It represents how the muslim community should be: loving, calm and tolerant. No radical people, no racism, no looking down at other religion, belief, or culture. I had always loved Janna's friend circle and everyone in the community, and I wish people around me were like this in real life.
As I've been following her since book one, I could see Janna had changed so much. She's more mature, more communicative, and more understanding to the people around her. Sometimes she's still a bit of a whiner, but she's getting stronger than in book one. I also LOVED how she managed to face all her problem so bravely. Man, I want to be her.
And this is what I like the most from this book: if someone didn't love you back, instead of pushing your feelings and keep running after that one particular person, you should move on. There's a whole lot of possibilities in front of you--don't waste it all for just one single person.
Definitely 5/5, can't wait for Love from Mecca to Medina!
In this sequel of 'Saints and Misfits', we followed Janna as the preparation for Sarah and Muhammad's nikah ceremony begins. Other than that, she's been longing to see Nuah, whom she had grown to love after their past shared events. But when they finally met, Nuah suddenly treated her differently, and before she could keep up with everything's that going on, there are new people who was going to enter her life and probably ruin whatever kind of peace she has in her head.
Okay this is ULTRA COOL. How could a middle grade book be so simple yet so complicated at the same time?
At first, I thought it was all about love between Janna and Nuah. I even imagined how they would end up together in the end. But of course, nothing is that simple. Life is full of obstacles, even more for a seventeen years old Janna.
This book has successfully tackle every issues it brought since the beginning--religion, culture, racism. It represents how the muslim community should be: loving, calm and tolerant. No radical people, no racism, no looking down at other religion, belief, or culture. I had always loved Janna's friend circle and everyone in the community, and I wish people around me were like this in real life.
As I've been following her since book one, I could see Janna had changed so much. She's more mature, more communicative, and more understanding to the people around her. Sometimes she's still a bit of a whiner, but she's getting stronger than in book one. I also LOVED how she managed to face all her problem so bravely. Man, I want to be her.
And this is what I like the most from this book: if someone didn't love you back, instead of pushing your feelings and keep running after that one particular person, you should move on. There's a whole lot of possibilities in front of you--don't waste it all for just one single person.
Definitely 5/5, can't wait for Love from Mecca to Medina!