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The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

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erinlikestoread's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5


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gillian_darkholme's review

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dark sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0


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alejandrabro's review

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dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5


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ncastro098's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0


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jessy_caca's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0


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f_zanini's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5


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snslagle's review

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dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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za_'s review

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

It’s hard to capture everything about this book. 

To me, this is a book about the darkness of post partum depression. The voices in your head that are lying to you. It’s also about the power of generational trauma. 

Alejandra is fighting to stay alive, but there is a “creature” telling her to die. She has three children. Married to a man, who isn’t supportive. 

Then her children start seeing the creature. 

She knows she has to fight the creature to protect herself and her children

Her ancestors have been fighting this creature for decades, mini losing their life and their children’s life to it
 

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syaluo's review

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challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0


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pimaz's review

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The narrative voice of Alejandra and some of the other characters was grating on me. The dialogue between characters was too stilted and detracted from the story. I was looking forward to this book but could not read any more. The factual inaccuracies about breastfeeding and childbirth were annoying. 

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