Really really important book. It's heartbreaking and difficult to read sometimes, but that's how you know it's important. I really love Aisha's physical descriptions. Normally I don't need a blow-by-blow description of people's clothes, but in this case, with a different culture, it helped me see the difference between Naila's life in Pakistan and my own in the US. My complaints are that I don't care for the syntax in this book (I know that's really nitpicky, but I'm particular about such things), although I think the short sentences helped keep the pace up. I also didn't like the way time was kind of fluid. I prefer for books covering a longer period of time to describe the time passing a little more concretely. Finally, although I like Saif, I would have liked to see more of his and Naila's relationship before everything went crazy at the prom. I feel that their relationship was serious, but as a reader, I didn't get a sense of that through witnessing it; I had to be told that they loved each other. Witnessing more moments of them "before" would have helped me truly understand their feelings beyond what I did see.