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3.78 AVERAGE

emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

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jennfarrington96's review

3.0
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

rchlherrick's review

3.0
dark emotional medium-paced

meadams's review

3.0

This novel started slow and didn't really pick up or have an ending. All teh untold stories seemed to drift away

lrupkey82's review

1.0

I couldn't finish. But what is my opinion?
challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

thewildhare's review

3.5
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes

jdybs's review

3.5
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

This is my first book by Julia Alvarez, and I can see there's some good writing here. I enjoyed the stories and the richly developed characters. Once I'd accepted this book is magical realism, it made more sense to me. The constant use of Spanish words and phrases required keeping my Spanish to English dictionary by my side, and that was kind of annoying. For a Spanish speaker, I imagine this is a richer text.

merp's review

4.25
emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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maremack's review

3.5
challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes