I'm very sad to say that this book is a huge bucket of disappointments from the stereotypes to the charactersto "the world building" 
 And before you jump to kill me I want to say that I'm middle eastern so all the stereotypes and the cultural appropriation is not okay especially with all the stereotypes we are already getting from the media, we don't need another book to feed them. 
 This review is non-spoilry but my spoilery review will be on my blog soon 
 Here are the things I didn't enjoy about this book: 
 1- The way middle east is portrayed is stereotypical: 
 Okay let me tell you something from the beginning: The Middle East has a lot of problems but that doesn't justify portraying a culture without a well-done research. 
 - Basically, all the middle easterns live in the dessert and they're Ignorant and most of them are poor: Seriously do your research, I can pull you history books that would have made this book way better if just the author did a research. 
 -Her uncle always say that if she didn't marry this random guy *I can't remember his name* he will marry her himself 
 Seriously dude? Didn't you know that even before Islam this thing was forbidden in the middle east? 
 - For the last time Dijin is not a myth but we Muslims believe that they exist and if you really want to describe them don't just depend on Aladdin but do some research. 
 - The portray of religion was very offensive because the author took Islamic ways of worship and turned them into some foreign things and religions, I know that this point can open a big debate but I felt like the author just depended on stereotypes and she could have handled this way better. 
 - I'll just leave you with this quote: 
 " Tamid had read in some holy text that there were no females among first beings. They didn't need any sons. They could live forever, unlike mortal things. They didn't need us." 
 I'm not even commenting on how wrong this is. 
 2- The Mc is very annoying 
 First, let's talk about her eyes: Amani have blue eyes and of course, she's more beautiful and more fierce than other girls 
 I don't have a problem if she is in the desert and have blue eyes, It's how Amani is described to be more beautiful than other girls (It's not mentioned directly but it's very obvious) which is ridiculous 
 You're basically saying that she's better than other girls because she has foreign features. 
 secondly, She makes stupid decisions: once she meets Jin she tells him her name and then runs away with him leaving her best friend (this was mentioned in the first two chapters I'm not spoiling anything) FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYTHING YOU'RE RUNNING WITH A STRANGER IN DANGEROUS DESERT where's your mind?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
 She annoyed me and her decisions annoyed me sm!!!!! 
 3- The love interest 
 HIS NAME IS JIN!!! the name is seriously ridiculous, The author could have named him differently 
 I really didn't care about him, other than him being the fierce & strong love interest who will do anything for the protagonist since the day they met *Sarcastic voice * I seriously thought that his character was lacking everything. 
 4-plot twists were obvious 
 Some of the major "Plot twists" were very obvious (I'm not telling you about them here, I'll do it on my blog post and I'll be saltier) Even me who don't read much fantasy I saw them coming. 
 Do I think it's entertaining? 
 Yes 
 Will I read the second book? 
 Yes just to see if anything has improved or not (but I won't continue to the third book I don't like torturing myself that much) 
 Do I recommend it? 
 No 
 No 
 NONONONONO 
 So I think I cleared my point here.