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A review by isa4real
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
2.0
I feel like this story had a lot of potential and was off to a compelling start with the story beginning with Sara’s backstory. However, the two main characters’ stories ended up being truncated and hodge podged between each other’s. In turn, this story is disjointed, with Sara being a more fleshed out and complex character than Emilie.
There was no real development in the two main character’s relationship to each other, or even anything in the prose that convinced me as to how instantaneous their connection may have been.
Overall, I believe this book could have made a compelling story if the author have zeroed in on one character, which if I were to choose it would be Sara.
P.S. This book initially caught my eye because I thought there would have been some reference to Puerto Rican poet Sandra Maria Estevez’s book of poetry also titled “Yerba Buena”. Please be aware that there isn’t, lol.
There was no real development in the two main character’s relationship to each other, or even anything in the prose that convinced me as to how instantaneous their connection may have been.
Overall, I believe this book could have made a compelling story if the author have zeroed in on one character, which if I were to choose it would be Sara.
P.S. This book initially caught my eye because I thought there would have been some reference to Puerto Rican poet Sandra Maria Estevez’s book of poetry also titled “Yerba Buena”. Please be aware that there isn’t, lol.