This story is very moving and tragic, and it gripped me from the very first page!

Lina, a teenage girl from Baghdad, is struggling to survive. It's the year 2003, and bombs begin to fall on her home, pulling her life apart from the seams. Her mother left Lina when she was young, taken away by soldiers, and Lina and her Papa are still trying to collect the jigsaw pieces of her life together. But not only that: even her dearest friends are instantly pulled away from her, all because her chosen religion is Christianity.

But suddenly, out of the blue, Lina meets a boy who takes her breath away, and starts longing for even those small moments they have together. Can their romance survive the bitterness of the war?

And when she is forced to make a decision that could change her life forever, what will she choose: the family she loves, or her one freedom? What would you choose?

This is a romantic story that I would really recommend to older readers who like to read stories about the difficulties of growing up, and the challenges they face along the way. The storyline was brilliant, though a little difficult to follow sometimes, so I would rate it an 8 out of 10.

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