Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali

59 reviews

tinysierra's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Marvel: Love from A to Z
I loved this book. The romance, the format, the family ties, the Muslim main characters. I didn’t know much about MS and I’m still learning about the Muslim faith so this book taught me a lot! I loved Zayneb’s passionate and fiery personality. 

Oddity: Positive Harry Potter references in a book about prejudice and hate crimes… am I missing something? This book was published in 2019… how many trans people are dead now as a result of JKR’s TERF rhetoric?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Cultural appropriation

_galilla_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical trauma and Death of parent

mina2299's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Grief, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: War, Panic attacks/disorders, Cultural appropriation, and Murder

wheatleypurin's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Finally done this book! (I would've finished it sooner if it wasn't under some boxes lol) Totally get the hype behind it, I love Zayneb and Adam. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Islamophobia

Moderate: Death of parent and Death

Minor: Cultural appropriation

heidifuglevand's review against another edition

inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Islamophobia

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

natalie_j's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Death, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Islamophobia

Minor: Violence

bookishcb_21's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book took me on a trip to Doha, Qatar and on the plane ride over, I got to see a budding meet-cute between Zayneb and Adam. What brought them together was a journal and continuous meetings. However, along the way, we learn that Adam has the same MS diagnosis his mother had before her passing. Zayneb helps Adam deal with this new diagnosis, along with dealing with hateful people in her life and how to stand up/become an activist. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more by S.K. Ali 💜

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Islamophobia, and Hate crime

luuley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Chronic illness

mel_s_bookshelf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Islamophobia, Chronic illness, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: War

fiwwa's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

i. love. this. book. SO. much.

i love the fact that i can swoon over a fictional men who my mom would approve if he was real. i love that us muslim girls get a right representation because yes, we do think about guys; holding his hands, hugging him when he's sad even though we know we can't. i love how passionate zayneb is with all the things she did for justice. i love respectful adam is despite the fact that he wants zayneb so bad, and you don't understand how happy i am when adam said he's praying fajr outside (giggling and kicking my feet cs the other fictional men i know would never).

i love how zayneb is 'water' to adam because that's what she is; she's what made adam whole and being near her brings him life. ♡ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Islamophobia, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Murder