Books like If I Should Speak

I was initially going to give this a lower rating, but the unexpected twist at the end redeemed it slightly. This is a spiritual story of three roommates: one is Christian, one is a practising Muslim and the third is a non-practicing Muslim. Tamika, the Christian roommate, has a college assignment to research a religion and do a presentation on it. She chooses Islam, and this forms the premise for the rest of the story.Here are my main issues with the book. Firstly, in quite a few instances, I felt as though the dialogue and happenings were quite juvenile. But the main drawback for me was that it was filled with a little too much of in-your-face kind of da'wah. I really don't like this style because often it only succeeds in pushing people away. I just didn't find it realistic. I can't imagine such a story taking place without the non-Muslim characters getting offended by some of the things said in the book.Tamika has very little conviction in her own beliefs, is not able to defend any of them and is highly impressionable. *Mini spoiler* She starts questioning her faith pretty early on. If it was so easy for her to forsake her own faith, then maybe it would also be easy for her to sway back the other way (hence why I found it unrealistic).I also didn't always agree with Aminah's (practicing Muslim) rationale for explaining some tenets of the Islamic faith; often I found her quite dogmatic and inflexible to differences of opinion. I'll give one example. There is a part of the book where she is talking about polygamy in Islam. She describes it in the following terms:"What if I had a problem praying? Should we not remove that requirement from the religion?"To compare polygamy to prayer is so misleading. One is a fundamental tenet of the faith, the other is something that is allowed but not even a sunnah (recommendation), and is actually cautioned in terms of not treating more than one wife fairly. This is just one example, but there were a lot of other black and white explanations that I didn't agree with. Furthermore, she was overly judgemental on her non-practising Muslim friend Durrah, which if anything probably pushed her further away from her faith. I firmly believe that the right way to preach to others is through showing love, not through instilling fear, and also through one's own actions. So I was a little disappointed with this book, but as mentioned, the ending was a surprise and was quite insightful. I was expecting the characters to reflect more upon what happened at the end, but this didn't happen. This being said, there is a huge shortage of Muslim literature out there, so I do laud the author for her efforts.