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Fiebre Tropical, by Juli Delgado Lopera

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juliagulia330's review

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emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

noah_silver's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

ayy_punk's review

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emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Chaotic and lacking structure. So much rambling about the same thing for so many pages that did absolutely nothing to advance the plot.
I enjoyed the Spanglish though. For me, that was the only thing that gave the narrator a unique voice, although it could have been used in a much better way.

youreadtoomuch's review

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4.0

There are books that touch the most tender and raw places of my heart and this book was one of them. Something about complicated mother-daughter relationships with a touch of religion, homosexuality, and immigration that just do it for me. Francisca is trying to make sense of their new home in the US only made worse when her family embeds themselves deeply into their new religious community. Failing to connect to her mother and meet her mother's expectations she falls for Carmen, the youth group leader, and as a byproduct into Jesus Christ. There's such a loneliness in wanting something so bad, you convince yourself it's what you want. And that was my most prevalent feeling reading this book: loneliness. And I vibed with that so hard, resonating with a character so lost attempting to find herself whereever she fits.

dominicanbookworm's review against another edition

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3.0

una historia escrita de manera original. me gusto el spanglish, y lo mucho que la autora inyecta la cultura Colombiana en la narrativa. es la historia de Francisca, una adolescente que se esta encontrando a ella misma, cuando su familia emigra a USA. es interesante porque tambien tenemos parte de la historia de su madre y su abuela, quienes aun siendo adultas, se siguen buscando a ellas mismas tambien. siento que se perdio un poco lo que el libro trataba de decir con la forma de escribir de la autora, a veces los capitulos se tornaban dispersos y confusos. tambien me hubiera gustado saber un poco mas de lo que paso con

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Carmen

al final.

este libro es una excelente adicion a la literatura lgtb latina, una historia importante y esencial de contar.