Unfortunately I wasn’t a fan of this one. From the setup (outing a random girl Hani doesn’t actually know is queer) to the cartoonish villain “friends” of hers who have no traits that suggest how they actually were ever friends, I felt like the story just didn’t work. We spend the whole time in the girls’ heads, but Hani’s motive is to prove something to these girls you’re screaming at her to ditch, and it’s clear Ishu doesn’t actually want what she’s getting out of this fake dating setup. I know this book may work for young readers who want a story about a queer religious character experiencing acceptance, and I’m just not that audience. For me, by the end I felt quite a bit like I was being preached at about religion ✨totally being cool and fine actually✨ (Hani convinces her dad to become more religious and she and Ishu find acceptance at the mosque and nowhere else).