Since the author doesn’t bother to give trigger warnings, here they are:

Sexual violence, sexual assault, child sexual assault, murder, child abuse, drug use, homophobia, sex trafficking, pedophilia, rape, forcing someone to commit rape

If these topics are triggering for you, please take care of yourself and proceed with caution.

This book was nauseating. I got what the author was going for but I didn’t appreciate the execution at all. The characters were irredeemably unlikable and the quality of the writing was inconsistent. I wish the majority of the book had been from Ola and Souraya’s POVs instead of wasting so much time with Ahmed, who I despised, and Aima, whose POV added almost nothing to the overall story because so little was done with her character and she got almost no resolution. 

Also, maybe it’s just me, but I think there’s a difference between being messy and being a literal felon.