“We saw people acting as birds fall today.” -From Velorio

3 stars

Warnings: child abuse, suicide, desecration of a corpse, fatphobia, death, homicide

Beautiful poetic prose weaves a fragmented story with lots of heavy subject matter. It starts off that way, on a subject I just felt really turned away at, so it was really hard for me to get into the novel. The summary should have warned me, but I guess I pictured it in a different light or something. Eventually characters and storyline come together. Many characters point of view are given, some with large blocks of texts that span several pages making parts hard to follow. Each segment always has a dramatic lyrical sentence start, which will probably lure most readers to keep going. Honestly if I weren’t reviewing it, I wouldn’t have finished reading with what Camila did.

Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.