readingbyte 's review for:

Love of my Lives by Yamile Saied Méndez

3.75

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book heavily features Puerto Rico almost as another character within it, and the setting for what is quite a sweet slow burn romance. I learned a lot about the island from this book and was happy to see El Yunque featured which I visited before too. There were a couple of cringe moments for me, mainly in Madi's (the FMC) internalized thoughts - she seems very naive and ditzy but at the same time clearly isn't which didn't quite gel for me. There were also a couple of events in the book that seemed to veer into imminent peril and killed my relaxation with this book (but did keep the pace up!)Overall a (mostly) sweet summer read.