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L.A. Weather
by María Amparo Escandón
Reese Witherspoon Book Club: September 2021
PopSugar 2018 reading challenge #14
There was a LOT going on with this book -- largely because you're following multiple characters and their multiple family members. I know this was supposed to read like a telenovela but phew, it was a lot to take in. Too much, really. One or two less "major" issues to cover would have given the reader time to breathe a bit. You jump from concern over the weather, to socioeconomic issues, to female reproductive issues, to affairs, to rape, back to weather, etc., and there is just a little too much happening.
Overall, I will say the story itself kept me interested because I did want to know more about the crops (I don't know why, but I did) and there were moments where I was thinking "okay, well, where else could this go" but... I didn't love a single character. I thought a ton of poor choices were being made by individuals and combined with poor choices of more characters (seriously, did I mention too much is going on?) and eventually I just said... maybe a fire will wipe out most of the characters? That didn't happen.
It isn't that this book isn't "good" it is just that it was not great, or spectacular. It was a book that I read and won't be discussing in a few days. Which, unfortunately, seems to be a trend for a lot of Reese books. Most are interesting studies in the human experience. But they don't grab your heart.
PopSugar 2018 reading challenge #14
There was a LOT going on with this book -- largely because you're following multiple characters and their multiple family members. I know this was supposed to read like a telenovela but phew, it was a lot to take in. Too much, really. One or two less "major" issues to cover would have given the reader time to breathe a bit. You jump from concern over the weather, to socioeconomic issues, to female reproductive issues, to affairs, to rape, back to weather, etc., and there is just a little too much happening.
Overall, I will say the story itself kept me interested because I did want to know more about the crops (I don't know why, but I did) and there were moments where I was thinking "okay, well, where else could this go" but... I didn't love a single character. I thought a ton of poor choices were being made by individuals and combined with poor choices of more characters (seriously, did I mention too much is going on?) and eventually I just said... maybe a fire will wipe out most of the characters? That didn't happen.
It isn't that this book isn't "good" it is just that it was not great, or spectacular. It was a book that I read and won't be discussing in a few days. Which, unfortunately, seems to be a trend for a lot of Reese books. Most are interesting studies in the human experience. But they don't grab your heart.