A review by sucreslibrary
We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado

2.0

just really mediocre. lots of build up to a nothing ending. really sucks to go look at reviews and see how many are other white people complaining about the MC being "racist" when sol's fears are very justified. she is a hard perspective to read from, but that's not why i gave this a low rating (aside from how long it would take her to piece anything together - that did get exhausting b/c the reader figures it out and then it takes sol like 100 pages to catch up until the very end when suddenly her motivations are extremely opaque and confusing). i truly hated reading about sol's and alice's relationship - neither of them are good for each other and don't even seem to like each other at any point. there is so much contempt and resentment between the two of them even outside of the weird shit happening in the neighborhood and it made it so i didn't particularly care about whatever troubles they were having. i really didn't understand why they got together in the first place or why i should be rooting for their marriage. there's also a few side plots in this that were not paced well, with one of them culminating in a truly embarrassing villain monologue that kills what little forward momentum was happening. 

just kind of disappointed since i wanted this to be more of a fun pulpy read with good social commentary or to be a hard hitting horror - it attempts both and fails each genre in doing so.