Status Updates From Aicha

don’t you hate it when that happens?

chat i don’t think i can finish this today

GOTTA GRIND

brain empty no thoughts

it’s giving poppy war it’s giving jasad heir it’s giving isle in the silver sea and yet

if i’m not finished with this monday, call the police

I’ve reached the point that Aicha has become unlikeable so this may be the end of the road for me.

Aicha’s religion filed judgement isn’t sitting well with me. It’s making her hard to like so I’m hoping that her character development takes her somewhere less strictly religious.

had to add this for my sanity bc the other book is so good but tell me why i’ve read five chapters and am only 6% in? MOMMAS GOTTA HIT FIFTY FIVE

what the fuck. 😭 ive never regretted reading a book

Im so hurt rn 😭😭😭

Promising start.

i like it alot so far but my migraines have been kicking me in the ass so i havent read much

I was excited for this after other great POC uprising books this year but Aicha is a struggle. Terrible pacing - 45% is way too long for introduction, it should have been 20% max. Action finally starts around the 50% mark but I’m already too divorced from characters & story. Also very concerned over the casual misogyny & male-on-female violence that the author doesn’t care to frame as bad.

"‘You’re a nuisance just like your father and sister, desert whore,’ he sneered, though the name had never disturbed her.

She had never seen the desert."

When the racist can't even racist correctly 😔

I'm so sleep deprived that I completely skipped over their wedding wtf

I can't get over how they're fucking right after their family were massacred lmao

A sex scene?? What in the haram 👀