Lucha of the Night Forest

Latine Month Who enjoyed a YA fantasy? Moi? Who? I'm flabbergasted. Anyway. As with the rest of my ARCs, I meant to read this 9234829346 years ago, but here we are. It's a good month for this one, anyway. Heritage. Horror. All of that. I may have mentioned this before when reviewing Mexican Gothic, b......more

Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC! This book was...a mess. Let's start with the good things. The cover is beautiful and what drew my attention. The description was intriguing but really didn't describe the book at all. The writing was good with some occasional quotes I liked. There was no goddess,......more

4/5 Stars A lovely surprise. We absolutely need more of this type of fantasy in the mainstream. Not only was the content different; the magic, Gods/Goddesses, and the personal situations the characters went through, but the very tone of how the story is told is so different than most of the books you......more

I started out liking this book, but then as it went on, I found my feelings toward the book changing. It started to feel too big in scope for one 16-year-old girl. And I felt that she was given no agency, no free will. She was just reacting to the situations she found herself in. And then the convers......more

The prose in this YA Fantasy is done beautifully. I am enjoying the standalone fantasy novels we’re getting because we get some quick resolution. However, I felt like this one needed at least one more book. The story was lyrical and the descriptions fully developed but I think that lent a bit to the......more