littlepepperguy 's review for:

My Mother Cursed My Name: A Novel by Anamely Salgado Reyes

3.75

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I definitely assumed by the title that it would be a little more expansive and grander of a story but it's an intimate study of a three generation family dealing with grief, forgiveness and moving on. 

I kind of wanted a fantasy setting with magic abounding and curses and everything but it's modern day second gen family dealing with generational curses. Not bad at all, just not what I was hoping for.. 

Which I get isn't fair to judge a book by my expectations when I didn't super look into it before starting but I'm not a fair person lol 

Also this is a petty, person gripe is when people think walking into a library and getting a job makes someone a librarian. You have to have a Masters In Library Science to be a librarian. If you work at a library without an MILS you are a library paraprofessional. So yeah she's not a librarian and neither is the man who "runs" the city library there, which like simply would not happen. I don't know any city in Texas that has a public library run by a nephew of some random guy. I could go on but I'm getting actually riled up lol