i mean this was cute!!!! i’ve heard rave reviews about this and honestly was expecting a bit more.
i think this book fell a bit flat for me because i don’t have a hint of religious trauma. i can count on my hands the amount of times ive been to a church service. i imagine what xiomara goes through in this book is the reality for a lot of children, but for me it almost felt a bit cartoonish. 
xiomara herself was kind of interesting, but it was hard to imagine xiomara as three-dimensional due to the length of this book. idk this entire story i couldn’t fully get immersed — i was always reminded i was reading a fictional book.
i really liked the climax, it felt realistic and raw, but idk after that the book took a nose dive.
i think the main thing for me is that because this is a poetry collection, there’s only so much that can be conveyed in the span of a book. 
this is my second acevedo book and i think my last. sadly i don’t think her writing style is for me :(