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A review by _karinaiello_
Not the Girls You're Looking for by Aminah Mae Safi
2.0
I really hate rating this book so low, but according to the star rating scale I devised in my own brain I have to. This was a book. It was fine.
The longer version of this review is that the story concept wasn't bad. The delivery was just. Not. Good. There were too many times I had no idea what she was saying, and not because of the untranslated Arabic sprinkled throughout. No, it was like the author knew the story, in her head she had all the backstory and character development details, then every once in a while she would write something out, thinking we all knew those things. But they were still in her head. I think she had a LOT of story to tell and I wanted to hear it all, but she just didn't deliver. I really think she had the potential for 3 or 4 books here and did herself and the rest of us a disservice by trying to do it all in one book.
The longer version of this review is that the story concept wasn't bad. The delivery was just. Not. Good. There were too many times I had no idea what she was saying, and not because of the untranslated Arabic sprinkled throughout. No, it was like the author knew the story, in her head she had all the backstory and character development details, then every once in a while she would write something out, thinking we all knew those things. But they were still in her head. I think she had a LOT of story to tell and I wanted to hear it all, but she just didn't deliver. I really think she had the potential for 3 or 4 books here and did herself and the rest of us a disservice by trying to do it all in one book.