Family Lore: Elizabeth Acevedo
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Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of one family's journey through their history helping them better navigate all that is to come.
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I think nobody is more surprised than me that I didn't love a Elizabeth Acevedo book. There just too many povs that weren't distinctive enough - especially as the jumps between past and present came into play, I got so confused with everybody, - not enough magic for me to actually consider this "magical realism", too much pretty prose to actually deliver the content of the plot... there was also a lot of spanish passages in this book and even though I did study some spanish at university, it certainly wasn't enough to understand it here. Overall, I think this book just doesn't live up to the blurb and tries too much in too little pages.
Description
Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of one family's journey through their history helping them better navigate all that is to come.
Book Information
Posts
I think nobody is more surprised than me that I didn't love a Elizabeth Acevedo book. There just too many povs that weren't distinctive enough - especially as the jumps between past and present came into play, I got so confused with everybody, - not enough magic for me to actually consider this "magical realism", too much pretty prose to actually deliver the content of the plot... there was also a lot of spanish passages in this book and even though I did study some spanish at university, it certainly wasn't enough to understand it here. Overall, I think this book just doesn't live up to the blurb and tries too much in too little pages.