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Jan 17, 2019goddessbeth rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I'm usually a fan of magical realism, because I enjoy whimsy now and then. Sometimes magical realism is in darker, grittier novels (like Broken Monsters), and that's very fun as well. But this....this just fell flat. I think the story is mostly a tragedy. I kept waiting for the MC to grow a bit...and she does, at the very end, in that she becomes a little more compassionate and vulnerable. But honestly, it didn't seem like that much of a hero's journey. There's a lot of just bizarre things happening, with no closure. And also, the MC's parents are fairly terrible at parenting. In the end, this left me feeling primarily unfulfilled, and was a bit of a slog to finish.