![]() ![]() But, I liked it anyway, and now I definitely feel the need to watch the movie again. So, if you go in looking for a Brayden, Hill, Radclyffe, Bramhall sort of Romance this isn't exactly it. But then we got shown each of their coming out (mostly to themselves) stories. ![]() We got told that they loved each other, but not shown it a whole lot. And I thought that this was where the story hit its stride, and at times I wondered if the book would end quite differently than the movie.I think that romance part of the book was okay, but, also it was a bit thin. But, they meet, become friends, and then more, but, then get scared and separate for awhile.This is where they grow as people and come to terms with themselves. They both have challenging families that expect things of them, and at the time they meet they both have Significant Others. Tala is also Christian (and Arabic I think) and Layla is Muslim (and Indian I think). Leyla works for her father's insurance company and is writing (nearly finished) a novel. Tala is getting married to Hani and trying to start her import business. (That said, the movie that was made from this, most definitely a romance).Layla and Tala are the two main characters in the story though. It's sort of billed as a romance, and I think a lot of people read it as a romance (that's how I went into it), but, as I got into the novel, it started feeling much more like a novel about coming out and accepting yourself than just about the relationship between Tala and Layla. ![]()
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