Book Stats 
Stars: 3.5 Stars 
Start Date: 05 /23/24 
Ending Date: 05/31/24 
Genre: Romantic Comedy   
Form: Audiobook Arc/ E-Arc 
Page Count: 321 pages 
Publishing Date: 06/04/24 
Point of View: Dual 1st Person/3rd Person 
Setting:  New Crosshaven 

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Thank you Netgalley and MacMillan Audio for the ALC in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Edelweiss for the E-Arc in exchange for an honest review. 

Four Eids and a Funeral is about two people who used to be best friends, Twia and Said, that  are brought back together in their hometown after the death of a beloved Librarian of the town. Once the Islamic Center, a place that means a lot to them and the community catches fire, these two once best friends now enemies have to team up in order to save it. 

Two reasons why this story got 3.5 stars. 

 

1. The Librarian Teacher-Didn't really have an emotional connection with the Librarian teacher who was supposed to be instrumental in Said, Tiwa and countless other people's lives. For being the catalyst that started our story off to get our MMC back to his hometown, she didn't have an emotional impact on me. The fact the authors didn't used the flashbacks (which was done well in this story) to have one or two flashbacks dealing with showing the connection and impact she have with our two main characters would have helped the story. Especially since her death was one of things besides the Islamic Center helping bring the main two characters together.  Also the fact she left her cat with them so she got to have a very special relationship with them but the fact we was shown but just told left it feeling flat 

 

2. The conflict- This book was looking at four stars until the real reason why our main characters went from friends to enemies. I swear I felt like the authors forgot why the main two characters was didn’t talk to each other anymore mid- through the book and just slap that in the book. That was the most ill- contrived conflict I have ever seen which hurted one of the best characters of the book besides the main two characters. Which made the actions of this character through the book as if they were trying to atone for what they did and not just actively trying to get the two main characters together. Then when confronted about it they give one the weakest excuses as to why they did it and all was forgiven. 

For the most part this was an ok story if you want a cute short Rom-Com story with low stakes, a little hint of racism, dealing with grief, and saving the community. The narration of the story was good as well. So I recommend this if you need a palette cleanser and something quick and light to read.