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.

It was okay but cute

It was cute day to day story of Margot Sanchez. I like seeing her grow to see her mistakes and from the shallow selfish person she was. Liked the Latina representation.

Although, I felt the ending was unsatisfactory and the romance was meh.

Low 3 stars Honestly, the one thing I really like about this book is the cover. I gave it 3 stars because it did keep me entertained and I wanted to see how it would end, but damn this book has some truly awful characters. That said, I'd give this author another chance.

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.

This book made me cringe, but not in a bad way. More in a “I remember what it's like to try to fit in and worry about how your family looks to others,” and I felt for Margot even in the times where she made me want to slap her. I feel I would have enjoyed this book more with an increased focus on her relationship with Elizabeth, but I appreciate that not everything was tied up with a nice bow at the end of the novel. Life is messy, and Margot's life is no exception. 3/5