Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Veil of Roses
Book Review: A sweet story about the power of love, hope, family and friendship
Summary: 4 Stars
This story was hard for me to put down; I appreciated the friendships that were developed, seeing cultural differences examined, Tami's internal struggles. I bought several copies for friends as gifts
I hope this gets made into a movie!
Book Review: Dropped the Ball
Summary: 2 Stars
The author had the germ of a good idea with this interesting little first novel, but then dropped the ball. What could have been a look at the visa by marriage issue, turned into a formula romance, and a bad one at that. Book Review: Do more research before you write a book!
Summary: 1 Stars
Laura Fitzgerald has done a horrible job with this book. She apparently thinks that being married to an Iranian guy gives her the right and the knowledge to portray Iranian culture and Iranian women as they truly are. There are way too many inaccuracies in this book. She needs to do way more research in order to start writing about a culture. Having lived in Iran for many years, I know first hand that how she portrays Iranian culture is wrong. It maybe her way of selling but its completely incorrect. Tami is born in the US, yet she has to get a visa? and is looking for a husband? Iranians in Iran eat better and dress way better than Americans here. Life there is not what she has painted it. This book was a waste of my time, a few hours of my life that I will never get back and I was angry the entire time I was reading the book. P.S. my parents who are now in their 50s and most of our family friends have not gotten married after a few dates. They date just like any where else in the world. Get your facts straight Laura!Book Review: Naive, and even "stupid American" view of Iranian and Muslim women
Summary: 2 Stars
I was not impressed by this book. When I bought it, I thought there would be some kind of bridge that would connect the lives of American women with Iranian women--that it would show that despite two different cultures, there are some similarities. Instead, I felt that the author had a poor understanding of Iranian and Muslim women in general, that wearing hijab was an oppressive scheme (which it is not in most Muslim countries, but an feminist phenomenon), that somehow modesty is bad, and wearing a bikini is good, that most Muslim women are child-like and immature, and that America is the perfect place to live in the whole entire world etc. Granted, that in Iran women are denied some basic freedoms, but it's not as simple, not as black and white as the author tries to paint. As a Muslim woman, I felt insulted, and dissapointed, that a book that is written in 2007 could be so stereotypical, and paint these women as some kind of aliens. The world is not so different from country to country, and even if there are some cultural differences, let's try to appreciate them, instead of showing them to be weird, alien, and "uncivilized." Book Review: Mediocre predictable formula=yawn
Summary: 2 Stars
I tried to like this book but could not. The character Tami seemed very immature for her 27 years and very often I found myself disliking her intensly. Her narrative was often grating,bordering on obnoxious as were the characters of Eva and Ike. As a Russian American, I did not appreciate the authors idea of Russian "mail order brides". Nadia was represented as being weak, uneducated, not being able to speak English and ending up living with some trashy character named Lenny in a trailer park, of course pregnant.Besides not having a grasp on Iranian women she obviously is sorely lacking in any understanding of Russian culture. Hello, most Russians speak English pretty well if not fluently, most Russian women have degrees and I find it doubtful they would allow themselves to be duped into marrying some character that resides in a trailer park. If you want to read a good book that addresses women living under Islamic rule do yourself a favor and buy Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns. I know "Veil of Roses" is fiction but I really think Laura Fitzgerald could have done a better job with character development and definitely should have done more accurate research on the cultures she was writing about.Every character represented was a painful cariacature of their culture.