A high 3.5 for me, which is why I’m rounding it up to a four for Goodreads. I really liked the emotions in this book even though the pacing and some of the characters threw me a bit. First, definite trigger warnings with this book (homophobia, violence, sexual assault, abuse, death).

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If we’re being honest, I didn’t like Rukhsana’s Seattle friends or her girlfriend. Their attitudes in regards to what she was experiencing just made them extremely unlike able. I know it was supposed show their ignorance and lend itself to what Rukhsana was going to, but it just made me want her have a new gf and new friends, even at the end. In some ways their reactions were worse or on the same level as her family.

The added level of her grandmother’s story was a great, unexpected, but sad addition. Just overall a very emotional book.