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royahellbender 's review for:
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
by Erika L. Sánchez
4.5 stars
I identified with this book so much, because Julia is a lot like me in her interests and personality and everything. (And I also come from a Family-oriented culture, though my mom wasn't as relentless in her insisting that I stay somewhere nearby).
This book is an important family story, with a female friendship, and tells the story of someone who is at a different income level. It's such an important book, and Julia's hilarious first-person narration helped the story even more.
The part that felt weak, however, was the love subplot. I felt like it came out of nowhere over 100 pages in, built up too quickly, and then we get a good chunk of the book without it. A lot of underdeveloped love subplots are fine that way in my opinion, but seeing how important of a part of Julia's story this love subplot is, it shouldn't have just gone by so quickly with little development after that much buildup.
I identified with this book so much, because Julia is a lot like me in her interests and personality and everything. (And I also come from a Family-oriented culture, though my mom wasn't as relentless in her insisting that I stay somewhere nearby).
This book is an important family story, with a female friendship, and tells the story of someone who is at a different income level. It's such an important book, and Julia's hilarious first-person narration helped the story even more.
The part that felt weak, however, was the love subplot. I felt like it came out of nowhere over 100 pages in, built up too quickly, and then we get a good chunk of the book without it. A lot of underdeveloped love subplots are fine that way in my opinion, but seeing how important of a part of Julia's story this love subplot is, it shouldn't have just gone by so quickly with little development after that much buildup.