by Aisha Saeed
I once was lucky enough to spend a lot of time travelling before kids and a mortgage. On one of my trips I travelled to a place called Varanasi in India. Deaths and marriages hold much significance for that holy city with outdoor funeral pyres burning constantly and mass weddings by The Ganges. I re...
I saw this book in the new release section on a website one day and decided to give it a try, honestly, just because the cover was pretty. I was not so sure what it was about, but it seemed great so I put it on my Amazon wish list, then I got it for my birthday. I read this for Booktube-A-Thon becau...
This is my Letter W for the Litsy A to Z challenge this year. I picked it because of that cover. Isn't it gorgeous? This is also one of those books that I had read the synopsis for when I first chose it and just trusted my earlier judgement, having put it on a challenge list and all. Then I promptly...
Written in the Stars is the kind of book that I should have loved but I didn't. Diversity? Check. Forbidden romance? Check. A female lead you want to root for? Check. So why didn’t I love it? For starters, it is written in a very simplistic middle grade style which is odd given the age of the charac...
Written in the Stars is a book that must be read, because its subject matter is so important. People need to read this and educated themselves about forced marriages (which, as the author points out, is not the same thing as arranged marriages) What Naila goes through is so unfair that a few time...
Written in the Stars truly is a heart-wrenching novel.“Life is full of sadness. It's part of being a woman. Our lives are lived for the sake of others. Our happiness is never factored in.'' Written in the Stars follows the ideologies within a Pakistani family unit. It talks about arranged marriage a...
This book is brutal. And you should read it. It’s the sort of book that makes me so glad thankful that more diverse books are getting published. I’ll let you in on a little secret, the reason I love diverse books so much is because I like to emerge myself into people’s lives who are complete...
4 - 4.5 starsI hate to think about how many girls in this situation don't get a HEA
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