Had been looking forward to reading this book. Sadly it wasn’t for me. It just lacked a good plot to get you excited and wanting more. It was very slow paced and never picked up

Set in the fictional city of Kalep this books aims to give insight to the workings of the Islamist extremist movements that do more harm than good in the name of God and religion. Under the Brotherhood the city of Kalep is ruled by a man with an iron fist who is the leader of the Islamic police. the book starts of brutally when two young people are executed publicly and this leads to the rise of a few people who want to fight back against the regime.
All in all its a great premise, the characterization no so much. the constant shift in points of view is more jarring than it is helping flesh out how bad the regime is I forgot a lot of the characters and what their motivations were. There is the constant telling of things which reduced the impact of the emotions I was required to feel. I liked the correspondence between the two women whose children had been killed I felt that those were the strongest viewpoints because their losses directly impacted the story.
Often times some of the situations felt contrived so that we can be preached to such as the burning of the library which happened so that the author could tell us how fascism works in a long paragraph.
Its a good book for what its trying to put across.