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A review by leafblade
All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
2.0
2.5/2.75
what the fuck Maggie you weren't like this
Okay so first of all: it's not her place to talk about latinx families, and it SHOWS. Like istg these characters were all white. The spanish was terrible at times. The culture felt watered down to fit what she knew as an outsider of latinxs. Also there were some scenes that felt glued there like a frankenstein monster of other latinx based books, like Like water for chocolate and Isabel Allende (who I consider too white to be writing magical realism even though she's from Chile, but I'm sure Maggie didn't know that).
The characters were shadows. They TRIED to be deep and full of emotions but they just weren't. Beatriz is a shadow of what Blue from The raven cycle is. The owl stuff going on is a shadow of the raven stuff going on in The raven cycle, and it just didn't work in the story. The side Sorias were boring, and only had their pasts as characterization, which was awful. Tony and Pete were just tools for the plot to go somewhere, and I don't think they were well integrated in the story at all. Daniel and Joaquín felt like one and the same, even though you're made to believe they're different, Joaquín being this illegal radio DJ and Daniel with all of the weight of being the Santo on his shoulders. I wish we got to see the.... uuuhhhhh how do you call the peregrinos in english? I mean the people who went there looking for miracles, Marisita and the twins and the priest, all of them. I'd really liked a third person POV that told me about them more than once, and what they were doing and how they felt when all of Daniel's stuff went off. They were far more interesting that any of the Sorias, and their potential was wasted completely.
The plot of this book is basically: Daniel the Santo of Bicho Raro goes missing bc he helped someone with their miracle when he shouldn't have. Now they're looking for him. That's it. That's what took 300 pages. This could've EASILY been a novella, and I'd probably have liked it more bc it wouldn't lose time with stupid stuff. Also why is Beatriz the main character like what the fuck this was all obviously about Daniel.
I won't read anything from her that isn't trc related from now on bc honestly what a fucking let down. It seems like she wanted to top trc and she just couldn't deal with the pressure of it all and it just. Flopped. All of it.
what the fuck Maggie you weren't like this
Okay so first of all: it's not her place to talk about latinx families, and it SHOWS. Like istg these characters were all white. The spanish was terrible at times. The culture felt watered down to fit what she knew as an outsider of latinxs. Also there were some scenes that felt glued there like a frankenstein monster of other latinx based books, like Like water for chocolate and Isabel Allende (who I consider too white to be writing magical realism even though she's from Chile, but I'm sure Maggie didn't know that).
The characters were shadows. They TRIED to be deep and full of emotions but they just weren't. Beatriz is a shadow of what Blue from The raven cycle is. The owl stuff going on is a shadow of the raven stuff going on in The raven cycle, and it just didn't work in the story. The side Sorias were boring, and only had their pasts as characterization, which was awful. Tony and Pete were just tools for the plot to go somewhere, and I don't think they were well integrated in the story at all. Daniel and Joaquín felt like one and the same, even though you're made to believe they're different, Joaquín being this illegal radio DJ and Daniel with all of the weight of being the Santo on his shoulders. I wish we got to see the.... uuuhhhhh how do you call the peregrinos in english? I mean the people who went there looking for miracles, Marisita and the twins and the priest, all of them. I'd really liked a third person POV that told me about them more than once, and what they were doing and how they felt when all of Daniel's stuff went off. They were far more interesting that any of the Sorias, and their potential was wasted completely.
The plot of this book is basically: Daniel the Santo of Bicho Raro goes missing bc he helped someone with their miracle when he shouldn't have. Now they're looking for him. That's it. That's what took 300 pages. This could've EASILY been a novella, and I'd probably have liked it more bc it wouldn't lose time with stupid stuff. Also why is Beatriz the main character like what the fuck this was all obviously about Daniel.
I won't read anything from her that isn't trc related from now on bc honestly what a fucking let down. It seems like she wanted to top trc and she just couldn't deal with the pressure of it all and it just. Flopped. All of it.