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earlybirdie94 's review for:
Before We Were Free
by Julia Alvarez
4 1/2 rating.
I love history of all kinds in novels, fiction or non. I’ve not heard of Rafael Trujillo until this book and looked on Google about him and his son. I thought it was very disturbing with what they did to their country, and everyone should educate themselves about it.
As for the book, my only tiny complaint was the beginning was a little slow. Other than that, it gets interesting to me about the 40 page mark. Then things start picking up pretty fast.
I know some people say that the main character had too mature of a voice, but you have to think about what she was going through. She pretty much was forced to grow up so you’re going to be more mature, especially since she was learning the more descriptive details of what was going on and realizing what sort of danger her and her family was in.
Sad, historic, and learning about different ways of life and time periods make me recommend this.
I love history of all kinds in novels, fiction or non. I’ve not heard of Rafael Trujillo until this book and looked on Google about him and his son. I thought it was very disturbing with what they did to their country, and everyone should educate themselves about it.
As for the book, my only tiny complaint was the beginning was a little slow. Other than that, it gets interesting to me about the 40 page mark. Then things start picking up pretty fast.
I know some people say that the main character had too mature of a voice, but you have to think about what she was going through. She pretty much was forced to grow up so you’re going to be more mature, especially since she was learning the more descriptive details of what was going on and realizing what sort of danger her and her family was in.
Sad, historic, and learning about different ways of life and time periods make me recommend this.