A review by macfiar
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor

1.0

I had really been looking forward to this book. I thought it would be an interesting look at how her life changed after marrying King Hussein. That's not what this was at all. This was part memoir part political manifesto. Queen Noor does two things in this book. First, she defends every political decision that her husband ever made, essentially being his posthumous PR manager. but she takes it a step farther by also defending herself for marrying him. She spends a lot of time showing us that she is really a feminist and how the world should also consider her husband a feminist. Then goes about destroying any proof of that by showing that she was and is a dutiful wife in the Middle East. This definitely doesn't fit the definition of a memoir. And it certainly isn't a love story, unless you are considering female oppression and one sided relationships "love" these days.