A review by vivacissimx
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique

2.0

Unfortunately there is nothing really redeeming about this book. It commits what to me are some of the cardinal sins: it tells but never shows. It is exclusively the story making demands on the characters rather than the other way around. It attempts to reconstruct the love story and fails. And it makes points that you only know it makes because it tells you and never stops telling you.

I don't think any of these characters are particularly compelling or fully fleshed, nor are their relationships ever in any real risk of changing/growing. The prose is beautiful but to what end, honestly?