Linda was living a life she thought would fulfill her needs, she was a woman whom she thought that no guy would ever resist and was every girls' dream -- until she became the one who was wanting someone, wanting Jonah and only to end up getting rejected by him.

Realization hit even harder when Linda found out that the friends that she thought were her friend had never really seen her as one. And when her one close friend died over cancer without her even had any clue about it, did really bring Linda into a new phase of wanting to live her life the real true way of living; by coming back to whom she was supposed to be -- a muslim.

And life could never been any better after that.

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Rough Diamond for me is a typical story of a hijrah. Though it was definitely was written nicely, I can't seem to really find the wow in it. The story was quiet a mediocre in its plot, a light reading. Didn't really make me involved so much with my emotion (which is the thing I trying to find in reading).

The conflict ended too quickly, like it's really a 'too good to be true' for me -- perhaps it's because of the way the story went through with long narrative and direct storytelling. Like I say I couldn't quiet connect my emotion with the characters so much -- I can't become one with the story. Though I admit it's one nice story that we still can take lesson and learn something from.