‘A Big-Hearted, Captivating, Modern-Day Muslim Pride and Prejudice, With Hijabs Instead of Top Hats and Kurtas instead of corsets.’
I read this book thinking it may follow Austen’s P&P and so, it would be entirely predictable. I was glad to find this to be not the case. In fact I’d say it was quite unlike P&P. I didn’t find it nearly as clever, nor witty.
It was a little more like ‘You’ve Got Mail’ but again not nearly as gripping. I just wish it was a little more gripping. Or plot-driven.
I didn’t like the Amir and Tarek storyline, what they were involved in. (Pornography- yuck!) But I have to commend the writer for her Indian cultural creation: Khalid. He was quite different and I’d say far removed from any South Asian stereotypes.
The story finished neatly but I honestly didn’t enjoy it enough to think of reading it again. It is set in the Muslim community and at its heart it’s about family.
I read this book thinking it may follow Austen’s P&P and so, it would be entirely predictable. I was glad to find this to be not the case. In fact I’d say it was quite unlike P&P. I didn’t find it nearly as clever, nor witty.
It was a little more like ‘You’ve Got Mail’ but again not nearly as gripping. I just wish it was a little more gripping. Or plot-driven.
I didn’t like the Amir and Tarek storyline, what they were involved in. (Pornography- yuck!) But I have to commend the writer for her Indian cultural creation: Khalid. He was quite different and I’d say far removed from any South Asian stereotypes.
The story finished neatly but I honestly didn’t enjoy it enough to think of reading it again. It is set in the Muslim community and at its heart it’s about family.