josiekeleb's review against another edition
Eine faszinierende Geschichte über die 19. jährige, in Mosambik lebende Sofia, dessen bisheriges Leben von immer wiederkehrenden Schicksalsschlägen geprägt war und auch in diesem Buch bleibt. Durch diese Trilogie habe ich gelernt, alles, was ich habe, 100× mehr zu schätzen, als ich es bereits tue. ♥️♥️♥️
aotora's review against another edition
3.0
I finally decided to pick up the last book in this trilogy and finally read it. I had to read this one in English because it was never translated but I liked it. I liked it more than I liked the second book anyways.
There are still some fantastical parts in this book but it's more realistic like the first one.
Sofia is now married with Armando but after he starts working in the city he starts cheating on her. She cannot swallow this even though her mother Lydia encourages her to forgive him and let him continue cheating because they are poor and need his money to survive. Sofia ends up kicking him out but he is acting suspicious. Finally one day he snaps and gets drunk, comes to her house in the middle of the night and takes her into the middle of nowhere and leaves her there because she won't take him back (though I have no idea why she went into the car with him when she kept saying that he was acting weirdly and suspiciously but okay). Eventually she forgives him and goes to find him in the city but she ends up witnessing his death. He stole a bike from some poor folks and they decide to lynch him by burning him alive in public.
The one thing that really bugged me is that at the end her mom implies that it's Sofia's fault because if she didn't kick him out after he cheated on her he wouldn't start stealing and going down the bad path - I didn't like that that was never addressed and that it was just glossed over like it was nothing.
The writing style is also really odd - it's weirdly simplistic at times and missing a lot of details but really detailed at other times. Though considering that it's written from her memories I guess that that's the reason for that.
There are still some fantastical parts in this book but it's more realistic like the first one.
Sofia is now married with Armando but after he starts working in the city he starts cheating on her. She cannot swallow this even though her mother Lydia encourages her to forgive him and let him continue cheating because they are poor and need his money to survive. Sofia ends up kicking him out but he is acting suspicious. Finally one day he snaps and gets drunk, comes to her house in the middle of the night and takes her into the middle of nowhere and leaves her there because she won't take him back (though I have no idea why she went into the car with him when she kept saying that he was acting weirdly and suspiciously but okay). Eventually she forgives him and goes to find him in the city but she ends up witnessing his death. He stole a bike from some poor folks and they decide to lynch him by burning him alive in public.
The one thing that really bugged me is that at the end her mom implies that it's Sofia's fault because if she didn't kick him out after he cheated on her he wouldn't start stealing and going down the bad path - I didn't like that that was never addressed and that it was just glossed over like it was nothing.
The writing style is also really odd - it's weirdly simplistic at times and missing a lot of details but really detailed at other times. Though considering that it's written from her memories I guess that that's the reason for that.
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