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"Now, she slipped her hand from his as they walked back to class. Whenever she felt this way, panic would slice into her at the slightest thing, and mundane events would become arbiters of doom. This time, Ginika was the trigger; she was standing near the staircase, her backpack on her shoulder, her face gold-streaked in the sunlight, and suddenly Ifemelu thought how much Ginika and Obinze had in common." I get u sis

OH MY GOD I LOVE THE ROMANCE IN THIS I HAVE NEVER 'RELATED' TO ROMANCE AND LOVEY DOVEY BITS IN A BOOK BEFORE IS THIS A SIGN THAT I'M WITH THE RIGHT PERSON OR DOES IT JUST MEAN THESE WORDS ARE SO PRECIOUSLY SINCERE AAAAAAAA

OH MY GOD I LOVE THE ROMANCE IN THIS I HAVE NEVER 'RELATED' TO ROMANCE AND LOVEY DOVEY BITS IN A BOOK BEFORE IS THIS A SIGN THAT I'M WITH THE RIGHT PERSON OR DOES IT JUST MEAN THESE WORDS ARE SO PRECIOUSLY SINCERE AAAAAAAA

"and what could be less satisfying than stealing from someone so endowed that they never even noticed what you'd taken?"

Das rupiye

I read through the whole story finding myself questioning where this was going. I haven't read Manto before and the whole time i kept feeling like maybe this is going to go somewhere bad but then ??? literally nothing happened ?? Was the whole story leading up to the child sex worker returning the money? The point missed me.

Sukhiya

Are all these stories about women in prostitution? 😭

I think im half way through now and.
This book. Has changed. My LIFE.
That's it that's the review. Even if i stopped reading here this book would be the only dnf that i would give a 5 star. But ofc there's so much more going on in this book right now ofcourse i am going to finish it inshallah.

The one Urdu book i could find that 1. was fiction and thus didn't feel like an educational/islamic book 2. had a legible big font 3. was popular enough to have an audiobook on YouTube so a beginner like me could follow along to the audiobook without getting stuck on difficult words. I'm listening at 0.5x speed with my Urdu skills but it's going great! Only regret - why did i not think of this strategy before?

I am sooo drawn into this book now. The story's developing so well. Nita's character, her thoughts, her thoughts on Kovit and her mother, all of it, I love how it's drawing comparisons to the 'villains' of the real world - it's more subtle this time (compared to Not Even Bones, where i felt like the author wanted to shove her ideas down my throat). I didn't even notice when i started highlighting dialogues.

Why am I reading this when i 1 starred the first part of this trilogy? Well let's just say I had all 3 ebooks right in front of my face and they're the shortest reads i could see.

Also so far the writing feels much better, (Schaeffer must've gotten a better editor?) better enough to be able to ignore the problems i had with the 1st part and read this for the sake of the story.

I like how Nita's developing so far

So I'm almost half way thru and it's crazy how this book was more interesting in the first quarter. I think it's the writing, I'm realising I don't like YA that much. Can't say tho it's been too long since i read any significant YA books to remember if i like them or not. What i do know is that the writing in this book is kinda... hmm what's the word, oh I'm running out of characters. Tldr; not a fan but gotta finish

I'm really starting to hate Fowler (the narrator) at this point, is this what we're supposed to feel? The letter to his wife disgusted me, is this the "no one is black and white, but only black and grey" bit? I hate him and his thoughts.

"The war was very tidy and clean at that distance"