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I am probably hate-finishing this. Not a good thing to do, but I’ve abandoned the last three books I picked up so….
I wish this story was told by a better writer. The writing is repetitive and explicit when it doesn’t need to be, and oblivious in other areas. There’s no room for the reader except when I said, “really?” and “Marisol is in her 30’s, are we sure?” And further facepalming.
— Sep 12, 2021 11:31AM
I wish this story was told by a better writer. The writing is repetitive and explicit when it doesn’t need to be, and oblivious in other areas. There’s no room for the reader except when I said, “really?” and “Marisol is in her 30’s, are we sure?” And further facepalming.
Ugh, seriously writer. None of that needs to be said. We all know this…its already said several times that Marisol and her grandmother had a close relationship and she’s her grandmother’s favorite. Marisol flies (for the first time) to Cuba (a country she seems to know next to NOTHING about despite repeatedly identifying as Cuban, not Cuban-American), to fulfill her grandmother’s wish.
I don’t know if I’m going to make it to the end.