Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

Love, Hate & Other Filters

by Samira Ahmed

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019

A romantic and relevant debut about Islamophobia and how it affects the normal life of a teenage girl.

Maya Aziz dreams of being a film maker in New York. Her family have other ideas. They want her to be a dutiful daughter who wears gold jewellery and high heels and trains to be a doctor. But jewellery and heels are so uncomfortable . . .

She's also caught between the guy she SHOULD like and the guy she DOES like. But she doesn't want to let Kareem down and things with Phil would never work out anyway. Would they?

Then a suicide bomber who shares her last name strikes in a city hundreds of miles away and everything changes . . .

Perfect for fans of Annabel Pitcher, WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI and THE HATE U GIVE.

Reviewed by Laurie on

3 of 5 stars

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2.5 Stars actually. I expected this book to go deep, but I was disappointed. It was a very quick read with some room for thought, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. For me, it was too quick, too shallow and definitely too predictable. When I came to certain parts in the book, I somehow saw it coming. There is not much plot twist, which makes the book quite boring in my opinion. I know my opinion is unpopular, but I just didn't feel anything with this book. Therefore, I won't review it on my blog. It was just done and move on.

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