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Summary: Doreen
Review: This book kept me reading and I hate to read! Shabanu is very interesting!!!! I disliked the end. The author should write another story!
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Summary: Better than the prequel!
Review: This book was amazingly descriptive and heartfelt. Shabanu's culture was clearly explained and made the book very real. Her knowledge of herself and of others makes Shabanu a great role model to people even in the 21st century, and I think that everyone should read this book. But she is not perfect, and her humane qualities are made clear through her respect for her older husband and her love for a younger man. She nontheless stays true to those she loves, especially her daughter. Through her troubles and adventures as the youngest wife of Rahim and enemy of the other wives, she does what she thinks is right.
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Summary: Catherine
Review: This is an enthralling story of Shabanu. She is now married to Rahim. She is his 4th and youngest of 4 wives. SHe must find a place for her and her young daughter, Mumtaz to live when Rahim dies. Rahim's other wives hate Shabanu. This book has 1 bad part: the end! In my opion Ms. Staples should write a third novel about Shabanu!
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Summary: Great "real life" book
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. Ms. Staples really brings this book to life by filling it with possiblities in real life, it's no fairy tale. The struggles of Shabanu had my on the edge through the whole book, and in tears by the end. I loved it! I can't wait until a third book comes out!
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Summary: An excellent glimpse into the workings of Pakistani culture.
Review: This part of the world has exploded into news in recent times. If you have a young person who is trying to understand the culture of Pakistan, this is a good place to start. The story of the marriage of a young nomad girl who was forced to marry a wealthy landowner in order to settle a family feud, this book gives a glimpse into many layers of Pakistani culture. This book especially illuminates the role of women in that society. I would suggest reading "Shabanu" first to get the beginning of the story in more detail, but it isn't essential.
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Summary: An excellent glimpse into the workings of Pakistani culture.
Review: This part of the world has exploded into news in recent times. If you have a young person who is trying to understand the culture of Pakistan, this is a good place to start. The story of the marriage of a young nomad girl who was forced to marry a wealthy landowner in order to settle a family feud, this book gives a glimpse into many layers of Pakistani culture. This book especially illuminates the role of women in that society. I would suggest reading "Shabanu" first to get the beginning of the story in more detail, but it isn't essential.
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Summary: Best Sequal Ever!
Review: This sequal to Shabanu is just as good as the first. Ms. Staples did an excellent job of making you feel like you experience everything Shabanu does, that you feel her pain, sorrow, and anger. This sequel is heart-wrenching, intense, and will keep you turning the pages. The only thing I didn't really like was the ending. I read the last sentence of the book, which was at the bottom of the page,and I thought that there was going to be another page or two. The sudden finalty of the book makes you feel like their needs to be something else there. would love to see another book about Shabanu where she resurfaces and marrys Omar and reunites with Mumtaz.
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Summary: ~Reviewed by Callista Constellar ~ What an exqusite book!!~
Review: This was a great book, but, hello, there definetly needs to be a sequel. I mean all us readers really want in the sequel is for her to marry Omar and get back together with Mumtaz, right? So why cant Ms. Staples right a good sequel in her spare time? And, in the back cover(paperback) of Havili, there says that she is currently working on a 3rd novel. Is this a sequel to Havili, or just the book Dangerous Skies? Somebody please write a petition to Ms. Staples about a sequel to Havili!!!!!!!!
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Summary: One of the Best Books I've Ever Read
Review: When I read Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind, I knew I had to read this book, even if sequels sometimes disapoint you. But not this book. Although it's hard to believe, this book was much better than Shabanu! Shabanu has now grown to a young woman and has a child, Mumtaz. Her life is pretty steady (apart from the jealous older wives of her wealthy husband Rahim, who try to torment her and Mumtaz) until two weddings turn her life upside down. One is between her best friend and Shabanu's mentally challenged step son, Shabanu and her friend desperatly try to get out of this situation. The other is between her step daughter (who like her mother, treats Shabanu with no respect at all) and Rahim's nephew, Omar. Shabanu falls in love with Omar, but she can't do anything about it bacause she fears for her and her daughters life. In the end Shabanu must make the hardest decisions of her life. This book shows the ways of life in Pakistan from a womans point of view. It taught me a lot of things about the Islamic religion too. How girls are married off very young to someone their family chooses (usually a cousin) and how vilence is tolerated. It is a very depressing life style but Shabanu makes the best out of what she has. I really want there to be a sequel to Haveli, but so far all I've heard is rumors. I got my friend to read this too and she loved it also. After your done with Haveli you should also read Shiva's Fire. It's a lot different, but still pretty good.
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