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A review by deepower7
Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
3.0
I love the story, most of the plot, I love the rep. I've read some reviews from actual Indian Muslims and they don't really seem that happy, so I'll defer to them on that matter.
My main problem was the writing. The story takes a good 80 pages to start, and a lot of the time there are passages of writing that is pure lazy. I feel like the book needed at least one more round of finetuning with an editor, but they just didn't bother. I don't know if they thought the representation meant they didn't need to, but they should have! It would have made a good book great!
The first third of the book wastes a lot of time - incidentally, this is where the writing is most clunky, especially from the start. It's not a great beginning - it's one you have to power through. So that's where it lost its stars, but I appreciated the book for what it said and what it was doing, and overall it's enjoyable.
My main problem was the writing. The story takes a good 80 pages to start, and a lot of the time there are passages of writing that is pure lazy. I feel like the book needed at least one more round of finetuning with an editor, but they just didn't bother. I don't know if they thought the representation meant they didn't need to, but they should have! It would have made a good book great!
The first third of the book wastes a lot of time - incidentally, this is where the writing is most clunky, especially from the start. It's not a great beginning - it's one you have to power through. So that's where it lost its stars, but I appreciated the book for what it said and what it was doing, and overall it's enjoyable.