As you can see, I wasn't for me. At all.

SO many people were raving about this book, its cozy vibes and heartwarming stories, I had to give it a go.

I did not even make it through the first story. As I was reading, I couldn't help but find deeply contradictory descriptions of the characters, especially the main female character of the first story. She was very annoying, going from one extreme emotion to another and I found the author's ability to write women quite poor.

Nevertheless, I continued reading.

But, something was off. The structure of the narration felt really odd, and only after having done some research did this make sense to me. This story had been originally written as a play. As a theatre graduate, I have read many, MANY plays, good and bad, old and new, and I could tell this was not it. This was a poorly adaptation from the play's sides that didn't flow correctly written as prose for short stories. I feel like a better editing would have been key.

All in all, I DNF'd this book so quickly... and I have never looked back since.

Encontré este libro en una librería hermosa en Cartagena, Colombia, sin saber nada del autor o de la historia. Sólo me faltó ver que trataba de naturaleza para querer leerlo de inmediato.

El prólogo de La Bruma Verde es probablemente mi momento favorito de todo el libro. La narración es precisa, ágil y permite que las emociones y la trama tomen las riendas del libro sin abrumar o aburrir.

En general, siento que esta historia toca temas muy difíciles como la cacería ilegal de animales, racismo, abuso sexual y físico, tortura, etc. Es necesario que un lector advertido tome la decisión de leerlo con conocimiento de causa.

Sin embargo, esta historia es muy importante. Me importa poco evaluar un libro según la trama (si es o no un buen thriller, la velocidad de la acción, etc), en este caso porque siento que los temas tratados son mucho más urgentes. La deforestación ilegal, corrupción y cambio climático son lo que resaltan para mi de esta historia, más que tal personaje o tal otro.

Al final, es un buen libro por dónde uno lo vea, que va a encantar a los que estén buscando una novela que se lea como ver una película de acción y a los que quieran sentir a la selva un poco más cerca por igual.