I think Lopez needs to stick to writing screenplays. Her writing was disjointed and it drove me crazy how she kept changing tenses. I appreciate that Canela was probably a little manic depressive but it was just annoying. Lopez herself said in her forward that her editor or friend shaped the book into something of a book. That should have told her something. I just couldn't identify with Canela or maybe her character was just very one dimensional. A sex crazed one dimensional idiot. I think the only part I enjoyed were the food descriptions.