A review by alisarae
The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah
This book was pretty cute. The blurb tells the entire story though (conservative upper class white boy falls in love with Afghani immigrant), so there were zero surprises. A good lesson this book shows is that just because a person is kind or nice does not mean they don't have racist beliefs. Teens realizing that they believe something different then their parents, and how that is okay, is at the heart of this story.
The audiobook is pretty good. The story is set in Australia and the actors have Aussie accents.
PS the Australian edition cover is SO MUCH MORE SUITED to the story. Maybe the cover designer wanted to make a more "masculine" cover for the US edition?? But the US cover doesn't give you a feel for the story at all.
The audiobook is pretty good. The story is set in Australia and the actors have Aussie accents.
PS the Australian edition cover is SO MUCH MORE SUITED to the story. Maybe the cover designer wanted to make a more "masculine" cover for the US edition?? But the US cover doesn't give you a feel for the story at all.