What We Are Reading Today: Foreshadow by Leena Al-Thekair

What We Are Reading Today: Foreshadow by Leena Al-Thekair
Updated 19 October 2018
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What We Are Reading Today: Foreshadow by Leena Al-Thekair

What We Are Reading Today: Foreshadow by Leena Al-Thekair
  • 'Foreshadow' is the author Leena Al-Thekair’s debut novel
  • The book certainly does not feel like it has been written by a 15-year-old

Steady yourself, you are about to go on a rollercoaster ride. This book gives insight into the life of Meghan, a high-school freshman, who experiences everything a normal high-schooler does: Sore teachers, anxiety about not being able to fit in, finding friends, keeping up with the old ones. But that isn’t anything she can’t handle.

Meghan’s brother is a physics nerd, and Meghan helps him in his lab until one day she survives a near-lethal accident. She is left with a permanent change and so the year in front of her doesn’t look very bearable.

A beautiful story doesn’t just tell you a series of events — it intertwines feelings, emotions, moments you can relate to, and most of all it makes you live the story yourself. All such qualities can be found in Foreshadow.

It is hard to put down the book once you pick it up. What makes the novel even more notable is its author Leena Al-Thekair. This is her debut novel; with its publication she earned the title of the youngest English-language author in the Kingdom. She wrote the book when she was 14 and it was published when she was 15. But Foreshadow does not feel like it has been written by a 15-year-old. 

The book is available in Virgin megastores in all the branches of the Kingdom and at Amazon as a paperback and on Kindle.