annavanna_ 's review for:

The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

DID NOT FINISH: 50%

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I’m disappointed about this one - I really wanted to like it. The writing was really good! It was evocative and flowed really well. I think something about the structure of this just made it hard for me to connect with it. There’s only like 4 really looooonngg chapters, which made it kind of impossible to read a little bit at a time, and the main story keeps getting interrupted by the stories of the cemetery. I know I should have expected that, based on title, but maybe if the chapters were broken up into ‘main story’ and ‘cemetery story’ it would have been easier to follow. I really did like the concept, but the execution just didn’t do it for me. Would read from this author again though