Blanca & Roja

hmm, might change the rating in a second

i think the story and the writing were beautiful, but what frequently got in the way was my inability to wrap my head around the plot, what was going on, and the relationships between some of the characters. i don't know why, but the transitions between the very magical realism bits of the story and dealing with real life were jarring for me.

perhaps, once again, i'm the wrong time wrong place to fully and properly enjoying an anna-marie mclemore book

I really enjoyed the story of the book, but I hated the writing style.

There was four ppint of views, all in first person. And we mostly just read the thoughts of our characters and what are they feeling, there are almost no conversations. And when there were I felt they were lacking because they only happened between two characters, there was almost no interaction between the four charcaters at the same time.

There were also a lot of minor time skips that happened when chapters changed between characters, so we lost of interactions that I wanted to see.