A review by nicasio
Woman in a Frame by Raissa Rivera Falgui

2.0

I wanted to like this book. I appreciated a lot about the way it evoked its setting, and that it depicted families of artists, which isn't something I remember seeing before, in YA or otherwise. Unfortunately, there were just too many issues that kept me from really enjoying it. The prose was oddly formal, the characters all a bit caricatured, the sexual politics of the book were baffling to me, and the anti-imperial, revolutionary aspects of its politics felt weirdly tacked on as an afterthought, despite that those events figure so heavily into the life stories of the two main characters.