A review by jessicaxmaria
Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura

reflective medium-paced

2.5

The book started strong, and the first person retrospective narration (on a topic clearly inspired by Junot Diaz) made me curious on how it would use the POV to compare feelings then vs now. To tell the story of a coming of age and reflect on it. However, it was not successful. There was little deep reflection and too many logical issues in the narration that took me out of the book. There's not much driving the story here, and it felt like our main character was withholding information from the reader but for no reason. I wanted to know more, but I'm not sure there was anything there there.

Ultimately disappointing, but I did enjoy the actor narrating the novel, Marisa Blake. I think she made me care and finish the book more than if I had been reading this on paper.