Status Updates From The Hummingbird's Daughter

Great so far

"The Honeyed words pronounced by our lips don't even reach our hearts... How can we hope to love God if we can't even love our neighbors?"

While at first I found the book to be overly lyrical and unnecessarily verbose, I am now coming to enjoy the rich, vivid, poetic writing.

Knowing that the stories about her are verified and well researched makes the read even more enjoyable.

What really strikes me is the creativity of the author's imagination to fill in all the gaps of their day-to-day lives, thoughts, etc. It feels like it truly all happened así

I understand this is a reflection of the magical realism style very popular in Latin America, but I find the language to be too flowery. Trying too hard to be poetic. Also, it is a direct translation, in many cases, of how one would speak in Spanish. This is fine, but if the story is going to be told in English, there are some parts that would flow better and make more sense if it was just translated fully.