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A review by curlypip
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
2.0
Ugh, I didn’t finish. I feel super guilty about it, but… so many books and so little time.
I was really looking forward to reading this one, but I couldn’t get into it, and gave up just over half way through. I’m not a fan of short stories, and this is almost that - a collection of vignettes rather than a coherent narrative. It was always a chore to pick it up again, and I looked up the story summary online and found I didn’t even care about the ending and the “big reveal”.
The descriptions of time and place were beautiful, almost Dickensian. It wasn’t all bad, but also not for me
I was really looking forward to reading this one, but I couldn’t get into it, and gave up just over half way through. I’m not a fan of short stories, and this is almost that - a collection of vignettes rather than a coherent narrative. It was always a chore to pick it up again, and I looked up the story summary online and found I didn’t even care about the ending and the “big reveal”.
The descriptions of time and place were beautiful, almost Dickensian. It wasn’t all bad, but also not for me