While Nishat is at her first Bangladeshi wedding since she moved to Ireland, someone catches her eye -- her childhood best friend Flávia. She doesn’t think much of her until they bump into each other at school, and then she realizes Flávia is hanging out with Nishat’s enemy, an old friend who ditched her and made up rumors about her. And things just seem to get worse for Nishat when her school starts a competition allowing students to open up their own businesses, causing her to almost lose her friends because she is determined to open a Henna business and compete against Flávia and her enemy.

The Henna Wars is a lovely book written with great Desi and queer representation. I think the rival business plot of this book was very cool and original and you get to know all the characters very well throughout the book. If you are looking for more books with queer representation, I recommend you read They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera or Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan.