An engaging read that will captivate its target audience. I loved the realistic references to the 70's and 80's Bay Area as well as the lyrical writing Michelle Ruiz Keil uses to weave her story. I would highly recommend this story to my students.

I really enjoyed this otherworldly novel. Xochi is a unique character that has faced a lot of trauma, forcing her to grow up very quickly. She has to figure out her place in this world, which is already difficult without magical creatures trying to enact revenge on your behalf. I loved it and can't wait to read more by this author!

Full review here: gabimorataya.wordpress.com/2019/04/18/all-of-us-with-wings-an-otherworldly-latinx-fantasy/

This book was a wild ride! There are several twists and it's a fantastic tale. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one. It's definitely an auto-buy for our library.

Wow. Intoxicatingly beautiful. I've never read anything quite like it before. Beautiful, lush language. The characters! OMG. Starting out with their names, and then how perfectly crafted they are.
I don't think I've emerged from the "reading dream" that experiencing this novel was. Excellent.

*thanks to the publisher and the author and Netgalley for a digital ARC of this gorgeous book!

This was a really interesting read. It reminded me a bit of Bone Gap and Wicked Like Wildfire. Similar to these, I was confused at times but I wasn't deterred. The magic that was woven into the story was believable and not too over top.

I’m not sure I get it yet, but the book is a wonderful dream of a book. Richly imagined with compelling characters, it is a good fit for older teens. The drug use in the book makes me wary to recommend to any student under 16/17 years old.

There was a lot to like about this novel, and I imagine it will appeal to its target audience, especially as it is written under the #ownvoices rubric, and features diverse characters. It is a well-written and at times suspenseful urban fantasy with many interesting and sympathetic characters. It portrays 70s-80s San Francisco very vividly, including reference to the AIDS epidemic. It deals sensitively with a teen-age girl dealing with neglect and trauma and finding an oasis in a "found family."

My only reservation, for its age-group, was a lot of sex and drugs. Don't get me wrong - I know these things are part of life, and particularly part of the rock music world. But heroin use? In a YA novel? Even though it was in the context of a mistake - the main character is drunk out of her skull and some not-very-nice people give it to her and try to involve her in a threesome - there is a suggestion that one of the other positive and more adult characters had been a user, and it was all presented very casually. I have read reviewers of other books complaining about the sex or drug use and thought they were being unrealistic or prudish, but in this case I myself was quite shocked, which doesn't happen often.

However, I would not let that stop me from recommending the book to students or to anyone who likes urban fantasy. As I said, there's a lot to like.