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Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
by Maritza Moulite, Maika Moulite
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika and Maritza Moulite is a fantastic book overall, the main character, Alaine, is strong-willed and courageous. The supporting characters have enough book time to get emotional results, minus one, what more could you want? Overall, on paper, the book has IT. The black main character of the story, like myself, is going to the motherland of Haiti and she's sassy? Count me in. The fact that this was written by two authors shocked me, I didn't realize it whatsoever. It was seamless in the way that it was written. The style was unique to the book itself, but I didn't particularly enjoy it. It caused me to become distracted or become uninterested. I get the concept of the style, but it didn't work for me as having both the current style and prose included. The voice was marvelous, especially for the main character and her father.
I loved the voice so much. One character that I didn't think got enough screen time was the mother. From the start, I didn’t care much about her. Within the span of 100 pages, we get every plot point that the book should have spread out. Nonetheless, that didn’t stop me from loving the book and the story taking place. However, I got burnt out after the first 150 pages. Setting up the scene throughout might have been better in a 400-page book. It then results in asking yourself, “well what can happen in the next 300 pages?” Like I stated before, the voice, the narrative, the characters are all fantastically written. If I had a dollar for every time I said “Yas!” when Alaine said something, I would be rich. I had so much fun reading her voice. It was so me. I would say this book did what it intended. It not only gave a black character a voice but a black family. Haiti. Black supporting characters. It set the scene well from the start.
While not every aspect is perfect, it did what it intended and excelled at it. I purposely did not talk about any plot points that I enjoyed leaving this as a non-spoiler review. If you want to know what happens, read this book. It's one to pick up, and while the unique letters, emails, and diary narrative don't always work for me, it could work very well for you! :)
I loved the voice so much. One character that I didn't think got enough screen time was the mother. From the start, I didn’t care much about her. Within the span of 100 pages, we get every plot point that the book should have spread out. Nonetheless, that didn’t stop me from loving the book and the story taking place. However, I got burnt out after the first 150 pages. Setting up the scene throughout might have been better in a 400-page book. It then results in asking yourself, “well what can happen in the next 300 pages?” Like I stated before, the voice, the narrative, the characters are all fantastically written. If I had a dollar for every time I said “Yas!” when Alaine said something, I would be rich. I had so much fun reading her voice. It was so me. I would say this book did what it intended. It not only gave a black character a voice but a black family. Haiti. Black supporting characters. It set the scene well from the start.
While not every aspect is perfect, it did what it intended and excelled at it. I purposely did not talk about any plot points that I enjoyed leaving this as a non-spoiler review. If you want to know what happens, read this book. It's one to pick up, and while the unique letters, emails, and diary narrative don't always work for me, it could work very well for you! :)