A review by alyssam_
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

4.0

More accurately, this is 3.5/5. It’s a page-turner with visceral descriptions—more so in the first half than the second.

Yet, the whole read felt like a Hollywood depiction. In both senses of it being cinematic but also obviously ‘for entertainment purposes only.’

It, at parts, felt stereotypical, overly-convenient, and very constructed. Which started to annoy me towards the end.

However, it is a fictitious book after all and you can’t help but neeed to know what happens to Lydia and Luca.