Hi, friends! I’m so excited to be back with another The Fantastic Flying Book Club tour post today for The Henna Wars by Adiba Jagirdar! I really can’t believe I got picked for this blog tour because it’s a hot one that’s on a lot of TBRs, so I died a little bit inside out of pure happiness because it’s such a privilege to be chosen 𼰠Huge thanks to the FFBC for organising these amazing tours and to the authors for making the eARCs available to us.
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The Henna Wars
Publisher: Page Street Kids
Release date: 12 May 2020
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary, LGBTQ+
Panda Rating:
When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls with rival henna businesses.When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wantsâas long as she isnât herself. Because Muslim girls arenât lesbians. Nishat doesnât want to hide who she is, but she also doesnât want to lose her relationship with her family. And her life only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life.
FlĂĄvia is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both FlĂĄvia and Nishat choose to do henna, even though FlĂĄvia is appropriating Nishatâs culture. Amidst sabotage and school stress, their lives get more tangledâbut Nishat canât quite get rid of her crush on FlĂĄvia, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized.
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