Comments on: Review: The Language of Secrets, Ausma Zehanat Khan https://readingtheend.com/2017/03/31/review-language-secrets-ausma-zehanat-khan/ before I read the middle Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Katie @ Doing Dewey https://readingtheend.com/2017/03/31/review-language-secrets-ausma-zehanat-khan/#comment-31689 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:35:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=7891#comment-31689 This sounds so good! I love your reviews, but they’re doing terrible things to my to-read pile 🙂

]]> By: Cee Arr @ DORA https://readingtheend.com/2017/03/31/review-language-secrets-ausma-zehanat-khan/#comment-31650 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 15:25:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=7891#comment-31650 I guess it’s better for an #ownvoices author to tackle such difficult issues than for a non-own-voices author (and let’s face it, there’s lots of books like that!)

Late last year, I read a thriller (pub date 2016) about terrorism by James Patterson and some other fella whose name escapes me, called Airport: Code Red, and it was just soooo islamophobic, and racist, with a dollop of sexism for luck. So I’ve decided to only ever buy James Patterson books second hand – if ever – from now on.

]]> By: Jeanne https://readingtheend.com/2017/03/31/review-language-secrets-ausma-zehanat-khan/#comment-31645 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:37:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=7891#comment-31645 Wouldn’t it be less like “the person I loved was a violent terrorist” and more like “the person I loved was more involved with his twisted ideas?” And that takes too much time, in a mystery–which is probably why he almost kills her, to show that quickly.
I don’t read that many mysteries anymore, either (I spent a year reading a lot of them a couple of decades ago) but my experience of them is that plot is paramount and character development–unless it’s one of those in a long-running series–has to take a far back seat.

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