Politic of the Middle East is not a democracy, it depends on money, religion, cunning and treachery. Laila finds this out the hard way. Her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup. Exiled to the United States, Laila finds freedom that she has not known before, can she fit in? D...
I was on my way to giving this a solid 3-stars, but the last part of the book made up for the lack of action in the first part. I expected a little more from a book with CIA connections. Laila and her mother and brother move to the US after her dictator father was assassinated in a fictional Midd...
(Silly me, expecting an actual mushroom.) But somehow things have shifted, and I’m both here and not here at the same time. No, it’s worse than that. It’s more like a feeling of being simultaneously dead and alive, like a furless version of Schrödinger’s cat. I obviously didn’t draw the placebo c...