Book Review: The White Pigeon // Sarah Mehmood

Hello!

Am very excited for today's review. I have always loved Sarah's works since I read them on the orange blob site (its Wattpad in case you weren't aware) and I was pretty excited to be purchasing this one. I initially wanted to get a hardcopy but of course shipping is not very kind to our country so i ended up purchasing an e-book version. of course my sister every time she is reminded of it never fails to mention how worthless it is compared to purchasing an actual book. I guess in terms of pricing i can understand, besides this is my first ever e book purchase. previous e books have been read for free through Scribd's free trial lol. anyways on with the review.

 The White Pigeon

 Author: Sarah Mehmood

 Stand alone 

 Format: e-book (kindle)

 Genre: Spiritual | Fiction

Synopsis:

Treading on the delicate path between instinct and illusion, Saika cradles a wish. A vision so sweet, it structures the missing pieces of the puzzle, only to lead her to another mystery. When thorns of the past infringe the land of reality, a price is quoted - a man’s dream and his dreamer’s heart.

Plans turn inconsequential, and life discloses the Creator’s Generosity while the dove braves the stormy skies to reach a destination beyond its conception. Drawing the line between discretion and destiny, The White Pigeon is a timeless tale of faith, patience, and submission in love for attaining a greater Love.

Rate:  4.8 / 5 ⭐

"You must know that sometimes relief isn't meant to reach you when you're frantically searching for light in the tunnel. you're instead meant to find peace in the darkness of the intense night, learn to enjoy the stars and become so comfortable with God's plan that when the sun finally rises, the splendour catches you off guard."

Review: 

I loved this book. Sarah always teaches us lessons of Islam through the different trials that people go through when getting married. She focuses a lot on love and loss and the faith we need to have on Allah during these times. The White Pigeon was no different. Saika, who had a goal of getting married to a righteous man, was very interested in one of the proposals that she had gotten. Hamdan was known to be pious and good and Saika had her heart set on marrying him. The whole story is their journey to each other, the trials they had to go through to get to each other. (I hope this isn't a spoiler but if you've read Sarah's previous works then you'd know she always goes for a happy ending).

"Hamdan and Saika's story was special, not because they had fought all odds to accomplish their goal, but since they had sought each other through their Rabb. Their love was inspired by the love of Al-Wadood, The Most Loving." 

The writing was beautiful and poetic. I loved the Quranic ayahs and hadiths at the beginning of each chapter (A Sarah trademark at this point) and the poems throughout the book that captured the feelings of the characters. The characters were also well written out, their development was more focused on how much more can they keep trusting their Lord despite all the trials they have been put through and I liked that. I liked the heavy focus on religion, hence why the book is more of a spiritual romance rather than simply a book discussing the halal relationship.

I loved how hopeful Saika was throughout the whole book, constantly praying to her Lord and placing her trust in Him that everything would be okay. Her pain and grief were conveyed well. Hamdan's story equally beautiful and sad. This book talks about how people take lineage and class very seriously when it comes to looking for a marriage partner and how it can have negative effects on a marriage. Don't get me wrong, it is okay to look for these but its also important to consider the character of a person along with compatibility.

One thing I wasn't very comfortable with was the way the characters spoke. As in it was too eloquent in speech. I didn't mind the inner thoughts and descriptive passages being very flowery and beautiful but when it came to a person's speech I found it a bit disconcerting. maybe its just a personal thing though.

Definitely recommend this book to you guys, it has become one of my favourite reads this year so far. 

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