Reviews

Lo Terciario / The Tertiary by Raquel Salas Rivera

sabinaleybold's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

4.0

maddihall's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

melindamaureen's review

4.0

An experience that really forced me to reckon with my shit.

beyondrecovery's review

3.0

I’m Puerto Rican and I was really looking forward to this. Unfortunately it did not live up to my expectations. I think I would have liked this better if it were just a straight manifesto... as a poetry collection it didn’t work for me, which isn’t to say it’s not an important work but it just lacked the things I generally look for in a collection.

imiji's review

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.25

this book is relentless + critical + vital + flexible in a way that i didn't think was possible in poetry!

pyrrhicspondee's review

5.0

I have long known and admired Raquel. I'm basically a giant fangirl. I am astounded at how much Raquel is able to write and how good it all is.

It's possible that this book hit me so hard because I was exactly primed for it: by teaching Marxist theory, by studying natural disasters (see my Hurricane Katrina obsession of a few years ago), by following Raquel on social media and learning a ton about Puerto Rico.

Well-deserving of that National Book Award nomination.