Very interesting , funny and kids love to read by their own

This book was great! Likely because it fell in my lap at a time when we have been digging into our family ancestry. The story focuses on a sister who is working as a fact checker at a magazine and has DNA tests done for a work project that say she is not her parents' daughter. It sends her into a deep dive trying to prove that the test was wrong, since her parents are both dead and she cannot ask them. As she delves further, she is contacted by the sister who has been searching for her since she was abducted as a child. The way these two instantly bond and fight, in my mind, further proved to me how they were cut from the same cloth. The twists come in when you finally learn the details of how the abduction happened, and who all knew and said nothing for years.

Interesting read involving a Latinx fantastical world about Brujas and magic. A girl, Alejandra, must journey through a mystical world to save her family but she has to learn to find herself first. A bit cliche but overall fun read.

It is a science fiction book with rich knowledge of biology.

This was one of those books that I could not seem to put down. I don't know if it was the ties to the childhood story of La Llorona or what, but the story was so intricately woven in and out of generations of women in the same bloodline suffering this curse. It was painful to hear these different women's stories of not feeling good enough or not wanting to be a mother or really not feeling like they had any choice in their lives. Watching them suffer with how to best stop their pain for them and their daughters. Bringing in the story line of the Curandera and how she helped them to reach into the power of their familial roots for strength and knowledge was simply beautiful!

Great

This was such a page turner of a book. Not based on a true story (as I had originally thought) this book follows a daughter's struggle to turn her father in after he escapes prison. Though the turmoil starts well before when she realizes that her father abducted her mother at 14 and she is a result of his holding her captive. Now married with two children of her own, what decisions will she make to keep her own family safe from her father? Her cunning and wilderness upbringing will be tested in everyway as she tracks her father and ultimately makes a decision on what to do!

So I saw that they made a TV Series based on this book, I have not watched it yet, I wanted to read it first. This book spoke to me in ways that reached me deeply. You have to ask yourself, "I've helped raise this child that is not mine, what am I willing to give up in life to keep her safe?" The twists and turns in this book kept me engaged. The snarky teenage angst came through flawlessly. I can't wait to see if the series holds a flame to the book version.

This book sang to me in more ways than one! The tempo of the audio version was as if you were at a slam poetry reading! A family from traditional Latin values, putting emphasis on God and good grades but diminishing the talent of their daughter who writes poetry. The drastic measures that the mom takes to steer X away from poetry was heart wrenching to me. Though in the end the way the daughter is able to bring her family to truly see her talent is endearing. Again, LOVED the audio version of this book!

This book popped into a recommended list after reading after The Haunting of Alejandra, so I had really high hopes. Unfortunately, it just fell flat. I found it hard to follow the two parallel stories of the curandera(s) in the story. The characters were so similar, that it was difficult to differentiate what story belonged to who.