Poet X  me había gustado mucho. Y disfruté  muchísimo de esta novela en verso también.  Me gusta como escribe Acevedo, su estilo, los temas que toca. 
Como en una partida de ajedrez, las voces de las hermanas protagonistas se alternan para narrar sus vidas -a partir de un duelo paternal-tan similares en algunas situaciones como el abuso y tan opuestas con respecto al bienestar social y las oportunidades de cada una. 

"But the best thing about our house
is that it’s a three-minute walk from the beach.
Which isn’t always lucky when the water rises,
but it has saved my life on the many days
when I need a reminder the world is bigger
than the one I know, & its currents are always moving; 

when I need a reminder
there is a life for me beyond the water
& that one day I will not be left behind." 

"Swimming might be the closest to flying
a human being can get. There is something
about your body displacing water 

in order to propel through space that makes you feel
God touched. That makes me understand evolution,
that we really must have crawled up from the sea." 

“He told me once, with me,he felt like he had to perform,become a character in a play,he had to prove he was good enough.That he had earned the right to marry the heralded general’s only child.But with her, with the woman who was my friend,who was his childhood friend, he could take off the mask.I was an aspiration, a flame he wanted to kiss.But for her, he would have lit the entire island.I was a smart decision. She made a dreamer of him."