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Not the Girls You're Looking for by Aminah Mae Safi
5.0
I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a physical ARC in exchange for this honest review and a place on this blog tour. And thank you to Aimee from Aimee, Always for hosting this blog tour. I am so thankful that I got the opportunity to be part of this.
Lulu and her friends are fierce. They are strong, independent and care for each other more than anything. Lulu is messy, she is your normal teenage girl just trying to get through high school. She is a wild child, making things more difficult for herself and her parents.
If there is one thing I get from this book, is that this is my new favorite friendship novel. This group of friends is fierce, I wish I had them by my side when I was in high school.
Lulu has two very different parts of her life, her family life and her life with her friends. Her father is Muslim and her mother is not, her dad’s family is originally from Baghdad. Lulu fasts for Ramadan and states that this is something she does that bonds her to her family over seas, the ones she can’t communicate with properly due to their language barrier.
Lulu’s relationships with her friends and with the boys she meets are nothing but complex, which makes reading this book so much more fun. Lulu is feisty, outspoken, strong, shy and just plain normal. She is relatable, she is smart and she is trying to navigate her life like everyone around her. She gets herself into sticky situations, laughs a lot, rolls her eyes a little too much and is unapologetically herself.
Lulu and her friends are fierce. They are strong, independent and care for each other more than anything. Lulu is messy, she is your normal teenage girl just trying to get through high school. She is a wild child, making things more difficult for herself and her parents.
If there is one thing I get from this book, is that this is my new favorite friendship novel. This group of friends is fierce, I wish I had them by my side when I was in high school.
Lulu has two very different parts of her life, her family life and her life with her friends. Her father is Muslim and her mother is not, her dad’s family is originally from Baghdad. Lulu fasts for Ramadan and states that this is something she does that bonds her to her family over seas, the ones she can’t communicate with properly due to their language barrier.
Lulu’s relationships with her friends and with the boys she meets are nothing but complex, which makes reading this book so much more fun. Lulu is feisty, outspoken, strong, shy and just plain normal. She is relatable, she is smart and she is trying to navigate her life like everyone around her. She gets herself into sticky situations, laughs a lot, rolls her eyes a little too much and is unapologetically herself.