I loved this a great deal more than the first one. Gives a wonderful perspective of what it is like to live in Saudi culture. The mystery was also excellent, had me guessing right up to the end. Excellent stuff.
I'm not usually a big fan mystery/crime/detective novels. They have to be really good - or at least "just right" for me to care much about them. As crime stories go, I'd have to say that this was just "okay". Though I understand the reasoning, I think it was a mistake to tell the story from Nayir's ...
Wow...I loved this book from the setting to the story, I will definately be seeking this author out in the future. The setting of Saudi Arabia is definately not commonplace in fiction and it was obvious from the writing that the author had either lived in the society or done a significant amount of...
Life for women in Saudi Arabia =Burqa requiredBrain optionalBYOB(Bring Your Own Brother/Bodyguard/Bedouin) any time you set foot outside your home. I thought City of Veils, although perhaps overlong, was a much better novel than Finding Nouf. It explores the varying levels of compliance with religio...
Zoe Ferraris' City of Veils is a simple enough whodunnit--there's the victim, the victim's family and friends, and the investigators. What makes this more than just another whodunnit is its setting--in the Saudi city of Jeddah. Where women's movement and activities are limited, the police investigat...
As you're unraveling the mystery of what happened to Nouf, the author reveals the mysteries of living in a strictly repressive Saudi Arabian society.Zoe Ferraris has a dual perspective that is helpful in this book. She's an American, so she knows all the things Americans wouldn't understand about t...
Nouf was an sixteen year old girl from a wealthy family and was about to get married before she disappeared. A couple of days later, she was found dead in the desert. Nayir, the desert guide who was hired by the family to locate her when they believe she ran away in the desert is not content with ju...
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