I absolutely loved this book and Alaine. The dynamics with her family- the way it was written- the letters going back and forth. No Notes.

I loved this book! It's well-written, enjoyable, and a great read. The authors did a great job of writing in a way that captures the readers attention, and makes you not want to put it down until you're finished! I would highly recommend it!

Such a good book! I had been really hoping to get this ARC and it didn’t dissapoint for a second! Interesting from start to finish and the book kept a great pace. Would recommend to a friend.

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
by Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite
September 3, 2019

Dear Haiti, Love Aline was was so funny, and I really like the main character, Alaine. Normally books told through mixed media are a real hit or miss for me but I really enjoyed this one. I liked the family dynamics, secrets and twists and turns. And I enjoyed the magical element of the book.


Thank you to HarperCollins and NetGalley for the electronic advanced reading copy in exchange for an honest review.

Well written and a lot of fun. Very entertaining and loved the unique perspective. Would read the author in the future.

NetGalley ARC Educator 550974

An amazing story of self discovery and love for one's home. It is full of love, friendship and family.

I don't know why it took me so long go to read this book. I just loved it. Alaine is a character, she's funny, real and just an all-around fun person. I mean she knows when she's being too much and she lived forward with conviction. I admire her outlook on life and her never giving up the character. As much as we all know the outcome we want Alaine t9 to be right.

I loved that the main setting and background are Hatti. It gave us a new outlook and description of Hatti that I appreciated

There was depth, discovery and growth for all characters, I had no idea where the story was going and it was a journey that I appreciated.

A must-read for sure

I very much enjoyed this story. It was wonderfully written. I look forward to the author’s next book!

I really enjoyed this book! I loved the epistolary style of it, and the way the authors tied all of the letters and articles and journal entries together to create a compelling story.

Alaine was a really fun protagonist, and I loved her sarcasm and humor. But I also liked that she was willing to admit when she was wrong and admit that she didn't know it all. I really liked her journey into learning more about her family's history and how she learned that there were more secrets than she ever expected.

I LOVE the mixed media of this novel: letters, emails, phone calls, class projects, articles and diary entries. I think it's daring and unique to mix all these media together and weave the narratives together, Alaine is dealing with all the emotions and feelings. She lives with her strictish, yet shrinky dad and sees her mom more as a news anchor than in real life. When her world starts crumbling, Alaine rebels in typical teenage dramatics: she intentionally sabotages a big class project. The repercussions: she is sent off to Haiti to stay with her Aunt (the minister of tourism in Haiti and her mom (who was recovering from a rather scandalous breakdown on live TV where she slaps a politician). While in Haiti, she has a new class assignment and she is slightly more excited about this one as she gets to research her family history. As she works on her project, she uncovers more and more of her family past: her family secrets all are coming out: the romances, the scandal, the intrigue.

Even though I could predict what was coming, I still thoroughly enjoyed the narrative!

A powerful story that is full of laughter and life's challenges. Alaine's sarcastic humor will make you laugh outloud at times. A great read!

This teen novel written by two sisters is told by Alaine Beauparlant, a senior in high school, whose parents were both born in Haiti. Her father is a psychiatrist and her mother is a television journalist. They've recently separated and Alaine lives in Miami with her dad while her mom works in Washington doing political news. When her mom has an on air meltdown, Alaine must struggle to understand and deal with the reactions from her fellow students at her private school.
Alaine is also working on a history project for school and she tries to take her project in a different direction than expected and get back at some of the kids teasing her. It backfires and Alaine is exiled to Haiti to stay with her aunt, the Minister of Tourism there, and her mom who has gone to ground while she determines her next steps.
As Alaine discovers what is behind her mother's actions, and learns more about the country of her parents, she also learns about the family curse that her mother has never shared with her. Alaine's aunt is also involved with a children's charity and Alaine interns there as part of her remote schoolwork. She also gets to know her mother better, as she comes to term with her mother's medical diagnosis.
There is a lot of Haitian history and culture here, and of course food.
The book is made up of school reports, texts, emails, articles, transcripts, letters, diaries, and other written material that come together to give a bigger picture of Alaine and her world.
I enjoyed learning more about Haiti, and liked the sassy character of Alaine. This book has a little of everything: romance, drama, mysticism, and humour.

My goodness I adored this one! I knew it would be good when I decided to do the audiobook and the lovely Bahni Turpen was the narrator, she is one of my favorites. This was the oldest book I had on my NetGalley list, and it happened to be YA so I decided to read it, and what an unexpected gem it was! I enjoyed the format very much, this is an epistolary style novel told through letters, articles, emails and diary entries, and it was really well done.

Alaine Beauparlant is a seventeen-year-old Haitian American from Miami and is very close with her aunt Tati, who still lives in Haiti and runs a successful nonprofit. Her parents are divorced, so she is navigating that, and her mother is a successful news anchor, but with that comes a lot of work, meaning not a lot of time for Alaine. So she spends most of her time with her dad and her bff. Then a couple of incidents happen, one involving her mom and one involving her, and she finds herself in Haiti for a couple of months completing what her school is calling a ’spring volunteer immersion project’ at her aunt’s nonprofit. The perks? She has a cute intern she is working with, she is with her aunt in person, and she is learning more about the Haitian culture and her family than she could have ever wanted to know, both good and bad.

I learned so much about the culture of Haiti, the authors were so descriptive in their writing I felt like I was there. I LOVED Alaine, she was a fierce yet stubborn protagonist, but also adorable. It was wonderful going with her on her journey, as she had to deal with some pretty tough things, but I loved the sarcasm she had to help get her through. The book covered a really difficult subject that I can’t go into without it being a spoiler, but I thought it was handled very well.

I can’t say enough good things about YA, or this book, and I absolutely recommend this one. Thank you to NetGalley and Inkyard Press for the egalley to review.

I really loved the Haitian representation, from the culture to the history of it. I think this story of main character goes to a different country, learns about their background and gains an appreciation of it has been done before, but I liked the twists with the family curse and Alaine's mother's condition.

Unfortunately it took me forever to get to this book - due to life - but I’m so glad I finally got to it.

Alaine messes up big time. In order to not be expelled she goes to Haiti to pararipate in a spring volunteer program. Haiti also happens to be where her parents grew up. I loved learning about Alaine and Haiti and her trials of teenage life.

Just not for me, I didn't finish this one and therefore never got around to reviewing it, apologies for the delay.

This was gorgeous and the voice vibrant and wholly unique. I felt like I could get lost in the pages forever. Highly recommend this one!

When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti and writing the report of a lifetime.

I wasn't the target audience for this book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I also think Maika and Martiza Moulite are talented writers.

Born and raised in Haiti, I loved this book. Alaine story is so common and the depiction of Haiti in the book was perfect. The food, scenery, everything was accurate.