A review by myblackbookish_life
Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 I could care less for soccer/futbal or sports in general, but put them in fiction and I will eat that ish UP!!!  Méndez’s prose is beautiful and I now need to hunt down and read everything else she’s published. This book tells the story of teen Camila, her passionate love for both futbal and her childhood sweetheart Diego, and the unfair and unsafe world for women and girls and female athletes, all told against the beautiful and very real backdrop of Argentine.

Even with her web of lies between keeping her futbal life a secret from her family who wouldn’t understand or support her and her relationship with her professional boyfriend, I can’t help but root for her. I adored and swooned at the woven love story, the kids at El Buen Pastor (especially Karen with her stutter and big heart full of dreams) and had a quick sigh of relief that Camila made up with her best friend Roxanna because I’m not strong enough for broken friendships that stay broken. 

There’s friendship and heart, but the story doesn’t shy away from the Camila’s abusive and hot tempered father, or how society (read: men) view women, and how we still have a ways to go when it comes to championing for, protecting, and uplifting women in society. 

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