Tova’s Reviews > The Beauty of the Moment > Status Update

This book being set in 2015, is interesting to read in 2025, though it was published in 2019 originally. I am roughly the same age as Mahta. And then I realize that in the world of this story, Justin Trudeau had only just become PM (this book is set in Canada), and Syria is the big humanitarian crisis. It makes me tear up (happy tears) to think that Syria is now free.

As someone who doesn't know how to drive because my Driver's Ed teacher scared me (he told my classmate he was the worst thing that had ever happened to his parents), so how big of a plot point the driving stuff is, is interesting. Susan and Malcolm together is basically what the one date I went on in Italy was like...except my date was a bit less emotionally messy than Malcolm. I am really enjoying this so far!

6 years later, we are trying this book again. I don't remember why I stopped, but I suddenly got the urge for a light YA book, after all the heavy and dark books I've been reading...which might be ironic considering the last TB book I read was anything but light, so we shall see.

This is really good.

Poor Malcolm.

The Zarin Wadia reference is A+. I love how this exists within the universe of AGLT.

Well, I think this is going to be a lot more light and romantic than AGLT.