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A review by feliciaclark
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
“Women with nothing to lose are dangerous.”
This book this book this book! 😭💖🙏
An eerie, fiction novel about how generational trauma travels through our bloodlines and latches onto whomever it chooses—a collision of energy and matter, weakness and control, loneliness and anger.
The story follows the life of a Mexican woman who goes to therapy to break the cycle of trauma dating back to the 1500s. The ancestors’ stories weave in and out of the present family members in a captivating flow I couldn’t stop listening to.
This is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely brilliant and hauntingly beautiful novel.
“Darling, you can be whatever you want in my eyes. I want what you want for yourself. You have to know, there are many who will not let you. The disappointment will wear you down and you might give into those pressures. You might even tell yourself everyone is right except for you. Please do not fall for it.”
“We must listen to the women who came before us. We change the future by unloading the sorrow of the past. We severe the cord of generational curses. Some cords are meant to shrivel away to blackened dead flesh. They are our blood but we are not them. We do not have to accept it. None of it.”
This book this book this book! 😭💖🙏
An eerie, fiction novel about how generational trauma travels through our bloodlines and latches onto whomever it chooses—a collision of energy and matter, weakness and control, loneliness and anger.
The story follows the life of a Mexican woman who goes to therapy to break the cycle of trauma dating back to the 1500s. The ancestors’ stories weave in and out of the present family members in a captivating flow I couldn’t stop listening to.
This is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely brilliant and hauntingly beautiful novel.
“Darling, you can be whatever you want in my eyes. I want what you want for yourself. You have to know, there are many who will not let you. The disappointment will wear you down and you might give into those pressures. You might even tell yourself everyone is right except for you. Please do not fall for it.”
“We must listen to the women who came before us. We change the future by unloading the sorrow of the past. We severe the cord of generational curses. Some cords are meant to shrivel away to blackened dead flesh. They are our blood but we are not them. We do not have to accept it. None of it.”