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 Middle Eastern country. The story weaves Laila's adjustments to life in America with her mother's efforts to work out a "deal" with CIA. I felt like this book had a lot of potential, but it didn't quite reach my expectations. The main character is a teenage girl whose father, a dictator of a country somewhere in the middle East, is murdered. She and her surviving family are moved to America for their safety, and it is there that she learns the truth about her father and her country.I liked the themes of dealing with betrayal in a family, adjusting to life in a very foreign country, and so on but the plot moved along too slowly, and it wasn't the page turner that I expected.
What do You think about The Tyrant's Daughter (2014)?
This book was terrible 0 stars!
—Nope
Well written and an interesting viewpoint of America
—Hamsterdish
It was confusing at the end, but overall very good!
—Elena
very good and sad that she lost all her friends.
—lsn1
