Blanca & Roja
Ratings13
Average rating3.8
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.
My first read for Transathon! Anna-Marie McLemore is nonbinary and one of the main characters is a trans boy whose pronouns are both she/her and he/him.While I enjoyed this, I wish I had liked it more! I thought that it was trying to do a little too much at once and subsequently ended up a bit scattered. The characters and their relationships really made the read worth it, but I was mainly confused about the magical realism element and felt like the ‘rules' were kind of arbitrary. I also never felt a real sense of danger and thus wasn't too invested in the swan aspect of the storyline. I definitely felt a lot could have been cut out of this to make it more enthralling. As a sidenote, I really liked the menstruation rep! Roja has heavy, painful periods and I appreciated their inclusion, although it also felt a bit heavy-handed at times.Blog Twitter Instagram Facebook Ko-fi
This particular story didn't speak to me the way McLemore's others have, but the writing was beautiful as always!
