I have to admit, I rushed when reading this novel. Still, it’s an amazing read about the bonds
of family and friends and the things some may go through to preserve these
bonds. I appreciate how the author can
write from the perspective of a created character instead of taking an
omniscient narrator’s role, as was the case with most fiction I read throughout
high school. This story was insanely
believable. Everything mentioned had a backstory relating to either the main
character or someone she knew; the characters had individual dialects (excluding the narrator to some extent); and not everything in this novel followed a linear path. However,
there were many parts of the story that made me feel uncomfortable. I’m not saying that just because I don’t feel
that the story is PC, the story is automatically bad – heck, I look back on this
story fondly and am sure most people would.
I think I’d better just leave it at that, otherwise I’ll spend too long
on individual blocks of the story and avoid the bigger picture. In the end, it’s a good story with believable
yet shocking writing and timing, always keeping readers on the edge as the
newest event unravels.
Idida Z. Casado
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