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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.
I've seen many Mexican reviewers talk about how this book is hella stereotypical - Mexican parents who are undocumented (i think the word "illegal" is used early on", who clean houses, and can't speak English. I'm all for "realistic" stories but someone pointed out that the only likeable characters were white,,, yeah. So, we're not doing that.
In the 20% I read, I hated every second. This book is marketed as a "laugh-out-loud" book - it's the opposite. It's triggering and annoying, no thanks to our protagonist whose internal monologue makes me want to scream. The writing is really juvenile, even for a YA novel, but it somehow packs in more cuss words than I've ever read in a novel before, which doesn't make it age-appropriate for a younger audience. No character is even semi-likeable, least of all Julia (the MC). There are contradictions galore, as if the editor didn't care for their job (what do you mean when you say Olga can wear sexy underwear if she wants and then a few paragraphs later, say there's no way she smoked weed because she was basically a nun. Do you think nuns wear thongs.)
Anyway. This book was annoying.
In the 20% I read, I hated every second. This book is marketed as a "laugh-out-loud" book - it's the opposite. It's triggering and annoying, no thanks to our protagonist whose internal monologue makes me want to scream. The writing is really juvenile, even for a YA novel, but it somehow packs in more cuss words than I've ever read in a novel before, which doesn't make it age-appropriate for a younger audience. No character is even semi-likeable, least of all Julia (the MC). There are contradictions galore, as if the editor didn't care for their job (what do you mean when you say Olga can wear sexy underwear if she wants and then a few paragraphs later, say there's no way she smoked weed because she was basically a nun. Do you think nuns wear thongs.)
Anyway. This book was annoying.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Grief, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship