Love from Mecca to Medina

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Love and “spice” doesn’t exist throughout the world EXCEPT in Mecca and Medina because once again, there are people who LIVE there. Then a marvel occurs: Adam and Zayneb get the chance to spend Thanksgiving week on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia. They forget how the Prophet always talked about how a husband should treat his wife right and with love.

This book awakened my memories of when I went for Umrah 8 years ago and I wasn't sure if it made up for my longing to go there again or made me miss it even more. They weren't the cute couple from the 1st book instead they were replaced by some annoying codependent cringeworthy couple who behaved like some lovesick tenagers rather than the adult married couple they were. I just wanted to look at the same sky as Zaynab, for more than a vacation, a break, a pause in our lives. i saw a looot of criticism regarding the premise of this book a while ago, and though i didn't take any of it seriously, it's still very nice and heartening to know every bit of it was unfounded. Moving on, this book was based on miscommunication and jalousy which is, as far as I am concerned, a recipe for disaster.

Zayneb who was my age, Zayneb who looks and dresses like I do, Zayneb who gets a love story in an industry where someone like her is so rare. If Love From A to Z made me giddy and happy, this book had made me frowning but also just in love with it all.

But in addition to the joy I felt following Adam and Zayneb, I also loved that this takes place in Mecca. the way both the cities are described were so exact to what i felt when i was there, that just about every chapter had me overwhelmed. I loved the reflective moments for the characters--they were really so beautiful sometimes (when they weren't being petty lol) and grounded in Islam.I suppose it's realistic of a group of Western Muslims--unfortunately free-mixing is common in Western Muslim culture so it would continue to be normal as they went for umrah. Thank you to the publisher and mlc_tours for including me in the booktour and providing me an early ARC for this book! Ali's newest romance is centered around Adam and Zayneb, the protagonists from her previous novel Love From A to Z.

I had loved the explanations of the Prophet and the explanations of Mecca and Kaaba, makes me want to go there right this instant as I was reading the book. Even if their relationship became tumultuous at times, the two were so adorable and I could honestly read about them forever.Love from Mecca to Medina is a sequel to Love from A to Z in which we stumbled across Zayneb and Adam's journey before their nikkah (which I absolutely ADORED). While there may have been some quick solutions to material difficulties, she really took the necessary time to allow the emotional struggles – both in their relationships and their self-perception – to stew, develop and reach their resolutions in an authentic way.