A review by megatsunami
Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera

4.0

This book was beautiful. I LOVED this retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice, loved how it integrated the characters' Puerto Rican and Dominican cultures and a critique of colonialism and racism, really liked that we didn't know for the first part of the book whether Eury is seeing a literal spirit or whether she's hallucinating, and I liked that the two narrative voices were so well differentiated (even if Eury's voice - both internal and external - got a little emo sometimes, which is probably the main reason I didn't give it 5 stars). Great pacing and the plot tied together really well. Good integration of mental health concepts into the story.