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The writing is so descriptive and detailed that you truly get a feel for life in the New York Dominican Community and life in the Dominican Republic, especially for a young woman.

I think Acevedo's addition to Drea being her girlfriend was necessary, and I believe she did it really well.

It wasn’t just heart-warming but also encouraging and there definitely need to be more stories like that! I’ve been raised with “traditional” poetry (until this, perhaps the only novel in verse that I ever read was Eugene Onegin), and to me it’s always been the same - the structure, the rhyme, the rhythm.

There's also a very astute interrogation of how different tragedies are portrayed in the media, particularly when they touch a minority community: how those stories tend to be quickly robbed of their edges, minimized, or entirely ignored even while those communities are still wrestling with the unutterable weight of loss. Reading about Camino and Yahaira, their grief and their new found relationship had my heart sinking deep in my chest.Her father goes home to the Dominican Republic each summer, which causes a strain on his relationship with her mother.