![]() I have wanted to see muslims and hijabis existing in every genre for so long because we should see ourselves represented in stories across the board. we will all read this story through different eyes. In the end, i am one muslim with one interpretation. this read to me like a group of characters with superpowers and i read it as such. but my interpretation of this book wasn’t that of magic because none of the characters use magic. i read it as a story based on strange science that allows for universe hopping.ĭisclaimer: i completely agree that dark magic is haram. and that is 100% their right to have that opinion. That being said, the book is a fantasy and while i looked at it from an "x-men world view where some people have powers", there will be readers out there, muslim readers, who won't agree with how adya's powers were written. sadly, stories like that have no nuance and paint a very broad brush of muslims. i'm ~cool~" characters which also leads to very harmful ideas regarding islam. and far too many that have the "i'm not like other muslims who are religious. there are far too many books that equate islam with oppression and i cannot deal with that anymore. i was so happy to read about a muslim hijabi who kicks butt and isn't "oppressed". and that for me was a breath of fresh air. ![]() she doesn't complain how her religion is holding her back. she doesn't take off her hijab for any man. i have craved representation like that ever since i was a kid. her religion is never used as plot point where it oppresses her. I read adya as a character just like any other. So i read her book carefully- through the lens of "will this harm hijabis? will this harm muslims and give them a bad rep? will someone who reads this get a bad opinion of muslims and ultimately lead to an increase in harmful stereotypes being seen as the norm as we have seen time and time again in books and media when muslims are shown?" i know kelly to be very sensitive and careful towards writing non-harmful rep in her books which is why i cherish her as a close friend. I sensitivity read for the hijabi muslim character in this book. Let me amend my review so it's more intelligible as i wrote the first one on no sleep (it's the same thing but with some clarification): But Delaney and Colton discover the cost of opening the doors between worlds when they find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy they need to destroy before it tears them - and their forbidden partnership - apart. and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows.ĭelaney wants to keep her distance from Colton - she seems to be the only person on campus who finds him more arrogant than charming - yet after a Godbole student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit-hole of deeply buried university secrets. Now, twelve years later, Delaney Meyers-Petrov has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton's been ordered to keep far away from the new girl. Quite impossibly, he woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl. ![]() But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney's unusual talents.Ĭolton Price died when he was nine years old. ![]() So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself. The Raven Boys meets Ninth House in the most exciting debut of 2022 - a dark, atmospheric fantasy about a Deaf college student with a peculiar connection to the afterlife.ĭelaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf.
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