Reviews

Let It Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz

_cafeconleche's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad

3.0

anaforgia's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

helenabythebook's review

I’m forcing myself to finish this at this point. I think it might have to do with the audiobook so I’ll return to it at some point. 

katie_archer's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.25

glendaleereads's review against another edition

4.0

There’s something about reading Angie Cruz that always makes me want to write. I want to write about mami and Papi. I want to write down their stories and I want to share it with everyone so that my family stories live on. Reading about Dominican families always inspires me to write and that my stories matter. I love it when a book does that. I love it when a book can inspire this feeling of restlessness because I am not writing.

In Let It Rain Coffee, we are introduce to the Colon family. They are scarred, broken, beautiful, vulnerable, afraid. A Dominican family with American dreams. And this story takes us in the past and the future to understand this family and Dominican culture

The timelines may annoy some readers with the back and forth to present and past tense, but if you can get past that then pick this book up.

hannahjeanie's review

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

natsketch's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

lexafullery's review against another edition

It was an audiobook. Hated the voices 

peaceandemi's review against another edition

4.0

This book beautifully elaborates on the struggle people go through once getting to NYC from DR as well as explaining some of DR’s history. It was a fun calm read full of warmth and sadness where you get to enjoy the development of each character throughout the novel. It was enjoyable because I could relate to it, as well as learn some new things as the daughter of a mother who came to NYC from DR as a teenager. From the characters mindsets to the dialogue between them, it was all very accurate and relatable which was exciting to see.

kira98's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0