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A review by meaganmart
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger by Margarita Engle
2.0
Let me start by saying that I do feel a bit guilty for rating a book about such a devastating and underrepresented time period as 2 stars. I knew nothing about the "special period in times of peace" prior to picking up this novel, and my heart aches for the Cuban people and the years of famine and struggles that they were forced to endure.
That being said, I found the love story at the center of this novel to be so unbelievable that the rest of the plot felt flat. Liana and Amado fall in instant love. There is not developing of their relationship, there is no discovering new feelings, it is *BAM* we are soulmates we will be together and break the law together forever and ever amen. I found it hard to believe that two people (and their families) would take such an enormous risk together in such a short period of time with the backdrop of suspicion the author has pervading their small town.
That being said, I found the love story at the center of this novel to be so unbelievable that the rest of the plot felt flat. Liana and Amado fall in instant love. There is not developing of their relationship, there is no discovering new feelings, it is *BAM* we are soulmates we will be together and break the law together forever and ever amen. I found it hard to believe that two people (and their families) would take such an enormous risk together in such a short period of time with the backdrop of suspicion the author has pervading their small town.