The Education of Margot Sánchez

2.5. I was excited for this one but I'm not sure it's fully cooked yet. Some really great ideas and meaningful themes (family secrets, gentrification, class struggle) but the characters had no there, there, even Margot herself, but especially the secondary characters, and the plot mostly dragged but then zoomed into a kind of gritty events crash at the end that wasn't really dealt with.

I wanted to like this book. I read the description when I picked it up from BookOutlet and it sounded promising. But it was poorly executed and it definitely reads like a debut novel. Margot isn't a likeable character. I mean, maybe neither was I at 15, but I would like to think that I didn't make EVERY bad choice possible and wasn't that judgemental and narcissistic. She doesn't have really any redeemable qualities. In addition to that, there's no real character development for Margot. It's kind of a sudden jump at the end rather than actual development. Every other character in the book is one dimensional. There's no chemistry. It's just all around FRUSTRATING. Everything is shallow, it was hard to read. Also, there is no need for that much conflict. There was so much going on it was hard to keep up and there was no real plot.