I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I didn't enjoy this book. When I finished reading, I felt so exhausted and relieved I didn't have to read anymore, which is never a good sign.

The story is told through various povs, mainly Juan's, Rosario's and their son's -Gaspar's, at different points in time during the last century. I feel like this choice is what made the book a miss for me. The changing of povs fragments the story and makes unnecessary jumps in time. We're thrust right into the story in the beginning, then there's a time skip, then we go back in time and get overly long explanations for things we sort of figured out in the last 300 pages...

I liked Juan's and Rosario's povs the most. I feel like they were solid and faster paced than the rest of the book. I struggled with Gaspar's mostly because he was a child and I think reading from children's perspective in books is a big hit or miss for me. His pov had a lot of "filler" about his friends, his ordinary life and soccer, before some things started happening and while that's fine in medium length books, I admit I was tired when I already read hundreds of pages and encountered a description of world championships in soccer.

The main story about the cult also wasn't that exciting to me. Maybe because it was diluted by the slow pace... I got the message, I just think it could have been told more efficiently. I won't deny that the author is a talented writer, because her writing style is good and I will probably read her other works. Some books just aren't for me!

I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I didn't enjoy this book. When I finished reading, I felt so exhausted and relieved I didn't have to read anymore, which is never a good sign.

The story is told through various povs, mainly Juan's, Rosario's and their son's -Gaspar's, at different points in time during the last century. I feel like this choice is what made the book a miss for me. The changing of povs fragments the story and makes unnecessary jumps in time. We're thrust right into the story in the beginning, then there's a time skip, then we go back in time and get overly long explanations for things we sort of figured out in the last 300 pages...

I liked Juan's and Rosario's povs the most. I feel like they were solid and faster paced than the rest of the book. I struggled with Gaspar's mostly because he was a child and I think reading from children's perspective in books is a big hit or miss for me. His pov had a lot of "filler" about his friends, his ordinary life and soccer, before some things started happening and while that's fine in medium length books, I admit I was tired when I already read hundreds of pages and encountered a description of world championships in soccer.

The main story about the cult also wasn't that exciting to me. Maybe because it was diluted by the slow pace... I got the message, I just think it could have been told more efficiently. I won't deny that the author is a talented writer, because her writing style is good and I will probably read her other works. Some books just aren't for me!