TW: Death of a loved one, death of a sibling, death, blood, depression, grief, vomiting, absentee parent, death of a parent, death of an animal
Rep: Hearing Impaired Side character, latinx cast

I received an ARC via Netgalley for this blog tour hosted by Algonquin Young Readers

"Human hearts are very complicated. They can pull a person this way, then that. They can convince someone easy thingas are hard, or cloudy things are clear."

I've had this ARC for a while and I knew it was a March ARC. I keep forgetting about it until yesterday, where I was like 'oh snap' at 10 pm at night. And than I was like, you know I'll just read the book tomorrow' because who knows my sense of priorities anymore. I have an ARC coming the 24th and I haven't even reviewed the first book.

This book is like Little Women, but with paranormal activity and Latinx characters. Everything that I almost like, besides Little Women. Don't kill me, but I have never read Little Women. I've tried too a few times-but it's something that I'll probably never end up reading. I liked the cartoon of it, and never paid attention of the movie.

I was instantly hooked by the first chapter! I wasn't sure what to expect with how weird the perspective was and who exactly was telling the story. It really confused me quite a bit of times when it happened. It would switch from the girl's POV to a 'We' meaning from the boy's POV that they lived next too. It was a little confusing. I kinda wish why it was neccesary like that, but it didn't really hinder my enjoyment from this novel.

This book was such a quick read and I appreciated that. Anything under 300 pages is a quick read for me, and me being in 400 pages-it was a nice change for that. With just under 300 pages, I was never bored. I was curious on the story and how the magical realism played apart in this novel. 

I always liked magical realism in books; frankly because there really isn't enough about them. Ana, the ghost, is trying to communicate with her sisters and the way it happens-it's usually by the hyena-the one that matches her spirit.

I don't know why, but I couldn't really connect with the characters too much. I liked them a lot, but there was something about them that was missing. There a few things that stood out to me, but I kinda wanted to know a little more about their personality and history.

There were also things that weren't really clear in the book; that sort of thing hindered my enjoyment. I was curious on what happened to their dad since he wasn't in the novel too much, the John thing and why he seemed to be important. Those types of things that are really minor, but I can't help having questions about.

Wow! Tigers, Not Daughters is such a fast paced and gripping story! I honestly finished this in one day. And let’s not forget about the beautiful cover!!

The story focuses on the four Torres girls and a neglecting father. When one of the daughters died, the house for the other sisters turns into claustrophobic hell. Each one deals with their sisters death in a different way. The oldest becomes the bread winner of the household and caretaker of her alcoholic, grieving father. The second one is a romance writer and always carries her death sisters’ books with her. The youngest is an animal lover and wanderer who looks like their long dead mother. Each one has a unique and weird personality and that’s what grabbed my attention the most!

There are also magical realism intertwined with each of the sisters own way of coping and grieving. I found this part to be interesting and powerful. There were some parts were I was a bit disturbed, specifically with the actions of the oldest Torres daughter. Also, mad because of the lack of action of some of the male characters. There are chapters of the story that are of a male point of view. I honestly don’t see the importance of that. I guess it gives an outsider’s point of view, but can be unreliable and unnecessary. At the end, most of the male characters caused more harm to the Torres sisters.

Overall, this is not just a story of grieving daughters, it’s much more that. After everything that the girls have gone through, their bond as sisters is unbreakable. It is a powerful and intriguing story! Thank you to Netgalley for the copy!

Lots of sensitive material: death, teenage promiscuity, domestic violence, alcoholism. But all in a pg light, yeah it is there and life is messy but it’s not over the top or rated R. This was an ok book. It had some really slow parts, but the last 3rd really picked up. I’m not sure I cared for the story arc, there are a lot of unanswered questions. But it was ok.

Modern day Little Woman with magical realism and paranormal elements. I always enjoy a story about sisterhood. This one will definitely hit you in the feels and keep you thinking long after you close the book.

We Start off with all four Torres sisters trying to escape their hellhole home...away from their awful father. The Torres sisters consist of Anna, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa. With no direction taking them anywhere, the Torres sisters decide to escape in the middle of the night and thanks to their nosey neighbors they were caught. A couple of months later Ana falls to her death from her window.

The family falls completely apart. Everyone stricken with grief...dealing with Ana's death in their own destructive ways. Jessica is the only one whose really providing for the family, while at the same time dealing with her own grief issues and a abusive boyfriend. Iridian loves to write and just be alone with her thoughts, and Rosa is focusing on the more spiritual side of things...including a loose Hyena in town who she thinks could be Ana reincarnated. But, there's something no-one was counting on..strange supernatural things have been happening in the Torres home since Ana's death. Mysterious writings on the wall, mysterious shadows, and mysterious laughter. The Torres sisters think that it's Ana trying to communicate with them. Even possibly try to run them out of the home they've known so they can finally be free of their fathers tyrannical behavior.

Tigers, not daughters was so beautifully written. Amazing prose. Mary makes you feel the words with every sentence written. The book makes you really realize how much grief changes a person. To what extents they go through to fight the demons. I've been seeing 'Tigers, Not Daughters' to 'Little Women'. I've never read 'Little Women' but, I will definitely put it on my TBR list. Thank You to NetGalley and Algonquin Young Readers for providing me with a physical copy of an ARC in a exchange for a honest review.

Tigers, Not Daughters comes out March 24, 2020.

First a big thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read a free Advanced Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I’d also like to thank them for the opportunity to participate in this blog tour.

From the first page, it’s clear that nothing is perfect in the Torres family. We meet the sisters as they are attempting to sneak away from their father and leave home, their destinations unknown. Each girl manages to make it out of the house and they even make it to the train station, but unfortunately they don’t get away. Thanks to meddling neighbor boys and their mother, their father Rafe catches them and forces them back home. We don’t actually know why they are trying to leave, all we know is that they’re unhappy. We learn from the neighbor boys that two months after their failed escape, Ana falls to her death from her bedroom window.

The story picks up a year after Ana’s death, her sister and father still stuck in their grief. Jessica is stuck taking care of their father while working a dead end job and dealing with an abusive boyfriend; Iridian hates her father and allows Ana’s old romance books and her own words to swallow her up; and Rosa believes she has what it takes to help the lost spirit of animals, including a local hyena that happens to be on the loose. In the midst of all of this, strange happenings are occurring in their home leaving them, and the neighbor boys, to believe that Ana’s ghost is haunting them all. Rafe, their father, can’t seem to bring himself out of the rut he is in. He’s constantly grieving or drunk, owes money to the wrong people, and it’s clear that his daughters can’t depend on him. Honestly, he’s been in a perpetual state of grief since their mother died years ago and things have only gotten worse.

I won’t give away plot details other than what’s above, but essentially Tigers, Not Daughters tells the story of what happens to a family lost in grief and attempting to navigate their way out of it. This story is very character driven, each character getting their own POVs and chapters, including the nosey neighbor boys. Each character is distinctive, which I really enjoyed. None of the sisters seemed to run together, which I think can happen sometimes with an ensemble cast like this one. The inclusion of the nosey neighbors and their fascination with the girls actually reminded me of The Virgin Suicides. I’ve also seen a lot of people draw comparisons to King Lear and Little Women as well.

I will say that this was some very heavy content in these pages. How can it not be when we’re watching each character grieve in their own way. If you aren’t sure if you can handle that sort of subject matter, then be cautious when starting this journey. I’ll admit it was a bit intense while I was reading it. There’s also a constant switching of the POV. I didn’t mind it so much, but I know that it’s not something that everyone enjoys. While this story may not necessarily be for everyone, I do think it has a lot to offer. This may not be the ghost story that you’re expecting, but itself definitely an interesting story about family, loss, and grief.

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Reading this book is what wandering in a forest at night feels like. You have that edgy sense of fear of the unknown and the unseen, but you are also filled with excitement for the mysterious and mystical, for what you may find.
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Pros: Immersive and enthralling description and narrative style. PoC leads and secondary characters. Multiple and well-written PoVs. Deals with grief and the traumatic loss of a loved one. Focus in abusive parents and violent relationships. Talks about depression and social anxiety.
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Cons: Creepy af beginning. Leaves a lot of question marks at the end. Not the best portrayal of the aforementioned issues for younger readers.
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Trigger warnings: Domestic violence. Abusive behaviour. Bullying.

I was blown away by this book. Considering I had absolutely no expectations going into it, I felt intoxicated by the prose. I’m usually a little leery of reading books focused solely on grief. I’m very, very easily upset by books (and by most things, I’m baby) so I started this book with a heavy amount of caution. It was handled beautifully. The writing was musical and powerful, and handled the extremely dark topics that this book covered with a deft touch. More than that, I loved that the characters felt absolutely and unrelentingly real. They were flawed, and that’s what made them perfect narrators. There’s nothing I love more than female characters who have human, ugly sides, not just their good, beautiful sides.

Each of the girls is processing Ana’s death in their own way, and it leads to a fractured and complicated narrative split across Jessica, Iridian and Rosa’s perspectives, a year after Ana died. The relationships between them are heavy and strained by grief and by the trauma of living in their family home, now shadowed by the emotional ghost of their lost mother, and the more physical ghost of their sister. We meet Ana through her sisters’ memories of her, rather than from her own perspective, and I was amazed by how Samantha Mabry managed to create such a whole and complete character from little snippets of her life. We know Ana by the end of the book, and know that she’s dedicated to protecting her family, and raising them in their mother’s absence while still trying to be herself. It’s a hard balance to find, and when the weight falls across the surviving sisters, they struggle to take it.

Iridian is haunted more than her sisters, by something that she can’t bring herself to talk about, and she’s trying to find herself in Ana’s romance novels and in her own writing – desperate to create a story of her own and a world that she alone has power over. Rosa believes Ana has been reincarnated in an escaped hyena, and will risk anything to find her sister’s spirit and protect it from the rest of the community who live in fear of the beast. Jessica is Ana 2.0. She wants to be just like her sister. She takes her sister’s room, her make up, her clothes. She takes her sister’s abusive boyfriend too, punishing herself for not being enough like Ana.

The prose itself is as harsh and beautiful as the girls it describes. I was astounded by the way that Samantha Mabry managed to fit the prose so perfectly to the tone of the story, lyrical and soft in places and razor sharp and uncomfortable in others. Where this book could have been suffocatingly sad, the Torres sisters were fighters and they drove the story upwards. I couldn’t look away because I needed to see their futures and I needed to see them empowered. They brought a glimmer of hope into the story even when they weren’t feeling it themselves, and Tigers, Not Daughters is a tale of female strength and empowerment that I could never have expected. I think Ana would be proud of her sisters.

The Torres family is composed of 4 sisters, unfortunately Ana, the eldest died. So we follow the three remaining sisters, Jessica, Iridian and Rosa. Their father Rafe is not a good person, they all have different personalities.
Jessica gets carried away easily, she has a job, a boyfriend (who is a big jerk) and she takes care of her family financially.
Iridian spends her days locked up in her room writing stories.
Rosa spends her days wandering around and going to church.
In all honesty I'm not going to lie down and give you a long chronicle since I didn't like this book. I'm not saying it's badly written because it's not, but the story is sold as Ana's ghost who comes back haunting her sisters and I'm pretty disappointed because for me Ana, is not really present.
The story is more about the life of the Torres sisters after Ana's death. In goodreads it is marked #1 so I guess there will be a volume 2, I won't read it.
I didn't get hooked on the characters at all, whether it's Jessica, Iridian, Rosa or even Peter.
The story could have attracted me much more but the fact that I didn't care about the characters kept me away from everything.

Thank you to NetGalley and Algonquin Young Readers for the free e-ARC in exchange for my honest review. A big thank you for the invitation to participate in the blog tour for Tigers, Not Daughters as well!

Tigers, Not Daughters is a beautifully powerful story that centers on the love and loss among the four Torres sisters: Ana, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa. After a tragic night in which Ana falls to her death from her bedroom window, the younger sisters must each deal with their grief in their own ways. Jessica tries to gather the broken pieces of the family and take on the role of caregiver to everyone, including their less than helpful father. Iridian withdraws into her novels and her writing, haunted by the guilt of her last conversation with Ana. Rosa wanders the town looking for any little creature in need of her help, following the clues she believes will bring her back to Ana's soul in the form of an escaped zoo animal.

With a dash of magical realism in the form of Ana's ghost, this novel takes a dark twisted turn as you learn more throughout the story of what led to the sisters attempting to run away and Ana's eventual untimely death. With Ana haunting their home, the sisters believe at first that Ana wants them leave and live separate lives, but in the end they learn that all Ana ever wanted was to keep them together and safe.

The side characters definitely push this novel into the 4 star range for me. Peter especially. What a sweetheart! I was rooting for a Peter/Jessica relationship from the very first scene we see them in. I'm so happy that in the end Jessica was finally free from John the abusive s***head boyfriend of hers.

The major themes I've taken away from this novel is that of love, family bonds, grief in its many forms, and the strength that young women can have among tragedy. This fast-paced unforgettable read is amazing and I'd highly recommend it to everyone!

After receiving critical acclaim for her novel, All the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry is back with a new young adult novel about sisterhood and remaining strong during tough times. Set to be released March 24th, 2020, Mabry's new novel, Tigers, Not Daughters, shows how it takes a lot to break the bonds of sisterhood.
The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sister’s memory. Their dream of leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start happening around the house: mysterious laughter, mysterious shadows, mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana really is haunting them, trying to send them a message—and what exactly she’s trying to say.
​ This story about sisterhood is moving and haunting. Each of the Torres Sisters is broken and grief-stricken in their own way a year after their eldest sister’s death.
I found the message about strength in sisterhood to be very relatable, seeing as I have two sisters myself. The way they reignite their love and protectiveness over one enough is beautiful to see. Building off the fact that I have two sisters, I know how each of us has our own distinct personality and Mabry does a great job of showcasing these girls’ differences. Seen especially in the way they cope with Ana’s death, each sister assumes a certain role and it isn’t until the event of the novel that things start to change a bit. Despite the vast differences between Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, each sister has a lot more in common with the other than it first appears.
The narration style is a bit choppy and makes it a bit confusing to follow everything and I found a few things to be inconclusive at the end; however, it was still an enjoyable read. I also wish we could’ve gotten a bit more background on Ana and gotten a definitive reason for her ghostly return, but I guess one can never truly know why a ghost has come to haunt its old house!
While this novel starts off a bit slow and mixed up, the pace picks up towards the end and the way the story is written gets a bit easier to understand. The way each sister tries to move on from Ana’s tragic death and learn to live in the world of grief is moving and bittersweet.Dealing with other issues like abandonment, religion, and abusive relationships, Mabry really delves deep into the tough issues of the world. Overall, this tragic novel is beautifully written and is sure to take the YA world by storm.

The Quick Cut: Three sisters try to find ways to cope after the death of their older sister and become convinced she is haunting their house. 
A Real Review:  Thank you to Algonquin Young Readers for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest review.  
 Death is the only guarantee we all have in life. For some it comes early and swift while for others its late and long. However, when family dies and those closest to you are suddenly gone, how do you cope with that? How do you find a way to deal with the new situation you find yourself in? This is the case for three Torres sisters.
 Ever since their sister Ana died falling out of her bedroom window, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa were left in its wake. Their father is left empty in the wake of what occurred. Its a year later and they still struggle with the loss of her in their life. However, when suddenly strange things start happening at home... mysterious laughter and writing on the walls... they become convinced their sister has come back to haunt the house. Will they find that their sister has come back in a different way or that their imagination has run wild in their loss? 
 I can see why so many people will associate this story with "Little Women". It has that same thread of sisterhood and them coming together that exists in the classic. It even has a darker element with the sister's death, the left behind boyfriend who is not exactly a great person, and the father who cannot be who they need for them. The tragedy in this family so clearly breaks them apart and in some cases, breaks their psyche. You have some of those quintessential elements of coping with loss in Jessica, who turns around and tries to become her sister Ana. There are some lovely elements to this story that will put a smile on your face, even in the midst of the terrible chaos. 
 However, this story in many places has no direction and leaves the reader a bit confused. Its great that they tell the story from all three sister's perspectives, but there are points in the story where that differentiation in narrative causes a gap in the storytelling. The magical aspect to this story comes in quite late considering how much of a highlighted element it is in the book's description. I do enjoy the way it folds into the tale in an organic manner and it brings the sisters together. 
 A good tale that loses its direction at multiple points throughout. 
My rating: 3 out of 5The Quick Cut: Three sisters try to find ways to cope after the death of their older sister and become convinced she is haunting their house. 
A Real Review:  Thank you to Algonquin Young Readers for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest review.  
 Death is the only guarantee we all have in life. For some it comes early and swift while for others its late and long. However, when family dies and those closest to you are suddenly gone, how do you cope with that? How do you find a way to deal with the new situation you find yourself in? This is the case for three Torres sisters.
 Ever since their sister Ana died falling out of her bedroom window, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa were left in its wake. Their father is left empty in the wake of what occurred. Its a year later and they still struggle with the loss of her in their life. However, when suddenly strange things start happening at home... mysterious laughter and writing on the walls... they become convinced their sister has come back to haunt the house. Will they find that their sister has come back in a different way or that their imagination has run wild in their loss? 
 I can see why so many people will associate this story with "Little Women". It has that same thread of sisterhood and them coming together that exists in the classic. It even has a darker element with the sister's death, the left behind boyfriend who is not exactly a great person, and the father who cannot be who they need for them. The tragedy in this family so clearly breaks them apart and in some cases, breaks their psyche. You have some of those quintessential elements of coping with loss in Jessica, who turns around and tries to become her sister Ana. There are some lovely elements to this story that will put a smile on your face, even in the midst of the terrible chaos. 
 However, this story in many places has no direction and leaves the reader a bit confused. Its great that they tell the story from all three sister's perspectives, but there are points in the story where that differentiation in narrative causes a gap in the storytelling. The magical aspect to this story comes in quite late considering how much of a highlighted element it is in the book's description. I do enjoy the way it folds into the tale in an organic manner and it brings the sisters together. 
 A good tale that loses its direction at multiple points throughout. 
My rating: 3 out of 5

Tigers, Not Daughters is a dark, somber, story about sisterhood and loss. The writing was absolutely beautiful, and I really enjoyed the story. It plays with magical realism and uses multiple narrators to tell the story.

My one issue with it was that it took over halfway through the novel to introduce any of the magical realism. I would have been fine if that part was removed entirely, and there were some non-magical reason that brought the sisters together.

The best word to capture Samantha Mabry’s Tigers, Not Daughters, is haunting. Ana Torres fell to her death sneaking out of her bedroom window one year ago, but her ghost may be back. Ana’s three younger sisters have all had a difficult year, one retreating into herself, another retreating into spirituality, and another retreating into what remains of the life Ana left behind. Their father, Rafe, never recovered from the death of his wife over a decade ago and his behavior has become more erratic and controlling since Ana’s death. The sisters and the unnamed neighbor who narrate all grapple with guilt and grief while wondering: why has Ana’s spirit returned?

Multiple narrators make for a novel that abruptly changes directions, moods, and tone. While the changes can be jarring, they echo the dissociation each narrator experiences in relation to the tragedy. There’s always something just out of reach and out of focus for the reader as well as the characters. While Ana’s ghost is central to the novel, Tigers, Not Daughters teeters on the edge of magical realism, rather than paranormal fiction. Similarly, while it is decidedly dark, this isn’t a horror story. Recommended for a day when you want to stew in a gray, rainy mood but want that mood to be accompanied by compelling language and style.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley for an honest review.

This one wasn't for me. I had trouble connecting with the characters. It kind of reminded me of the Virgin Suicides. I know a lot of people will like it, but I just couldn't finish it.

Book: Tigers, Not Daughters
Author: Samantha Mabry
Rating: 4 Out of 5 Stars

I would like to thank the publisher, Algonquin Young Readers, for sending me an ARC.

So, those of you who know my taste know that I have a lot of issues with magical realism. I’m not a fan, but the way it was presented in this book, made me keep going. Yes, it had a lot of the elements of the unknown and was kind of presented in an unclear way, but the writing just sucked me in. The magical realism elements of this book actually made a lot of sense to me. This story explored the world of grief and shock. Having a bit of magic during these dark times just makes sense.

This story follows three sisters after the shocking death of the older sister, Ana. We get to see all three of them deal with her death in different ways. I like how Samantha showed that grief is handled differently by different people. It makes the characters seem real. We get to experience the heartbreak, the struggle to go on with normal life, and blaming people for what has happened. The family barely hangs on. Grief is hard and showing how different people handle it, makes it all that much more real.

Now, the big problem is that’s all we get about the sisters. There is no back story, so you really don’t know how life was for them before. I’m thinking that they probably had it rough, but the fact that they had each other made it a little better. I really don’t know. I know that grief kind of twists your version of a person. All we do know is that the sisters were close and now there’s this hole. I would have liked to have some background on what their life was before all of this happened.

The writing pulled me right from the beginning. Samantha has this way of just engaging and hooking you right from the start. It starts right out with Ana’s death and the shock of it. This alone was enough to keep me going. I wanted to see how this family was going to handle it; I wanted to see how it was going to change their lives. Plus, there’s this bit about a hyena escaping from the zoo and voices following the sisters…Yeah, I had to see what that was all about. It is these little hooks that are going to suck you in and make you want to keep reading. I did read this pretty quickly, but that could be because there’s really nothing else to do right now.

Anyway, I had fun reading this and I’m glad it went there. This book comes out on March 24, 2020, so pretty soon. This will also be a spotlight book on my blog on March 27, 2020-so check that out.

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Right from the beginning I was drawn into the story of the Torres sisters. Theirs is a story of death and loss when they first loss their mother and then their oldest sister Ana. Told in the alternating points of view of the three sisters, this novel is about the grief that each girl experiences after losing Ana. Set one year after the tragic death of Ana, they start to notice Ana in the house around them. Part ghost story and part coming of age story this novel will leave you with a range of emotions that will keep you thinking about this novel for days to come.

Trigger warnings: animal deaths, human deaths, domestic abuse, parental abuse

Thank you Netgalley and Algonquin for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49045237-tigers-not-daughters" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Tigers, Not Daughters" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1575241822l/49045237._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49045237-tigers-not-daughters">Tigers, Not Daughters</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7078867.Samantha_Mabry">Samantha Mabry</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3219206484">4 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
*thanks to Netgalley for approving my request. <br /><br />This book is being compared as, "Little Women, but dark" and as much as I can see that, I've never read Little Women so I can't comment there.<br />The lives of the Torres sisters and their obstacles after their eldest sister Ana dies really tells the tale about how sometimes our parents can fail us. There's also a bit about 'Magical realism' but I don't really call it that considering I don't think ghosts should be filed in that category. But it's not paranormal either, since it is small interactions. <br />Definitely trigger warnings for death, abuse, (a moment of disgust when hair from the drain is being eaten-what was that??!) domestic abuse, accidents, and violence. <br /><br />I did enjoy this for the connections between the sisters, the writing was absolutely beautiful. However, I felt at moments it wasn't sure where what direction it was going in.
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I went into this book blindly, and it was NOTHING like I was anticipating. Tigers,Not Daughters is a story of survival, sisters, strength all with a little bit of ghost story. It was a quick read full of depth. After reading I had discovered it has been compared to Virgin Suicides and Little Women and I can totally see the similarities to both.

The Torres girls want nothing more than to get away from their sad, mooching dad and to get away from Southtown. After failing an attempt to escape once and the loss of their eldest sister Ana, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa are drowning in grief. A year after Ana’s death weird things start happening in the girls house and the girls don’t know what to do.


Despite requesting this book in part because of it’s beautiful cover, I really enjoyed reading this book. The author did a wonderful job of splitting up the sister’s points-of-view like chapters, but bringing it all together at the same time. I also really enjoyed the little backstory breaks between some of the sister’s chapters where we got to learn a little more about Ana and a few other things.

I really liked each of the sisters, and I think that’s because I feel like I can relate to all of them in different ways. Iridian likes to read and write, but also keeps to herself and is a little insecure. Jessica is the one taking care of her sisters and her dad, but she’s also trying to hold on to and honor Ana by trying to be just like her. Rosa was probably my most favorite out of all of the Torres sisters. She’s laidback and has an open mind about most things and she was always there when her sisters needed her.

This was a great story about sisters drifting after losing a loved one and finding their way back together. I was not expecting all that I got from this book and I’m so glad I had the chance to read it and be a part of the blog tour.


Thank you, NetGalley and Algonquin Young Readers for this opportunity in exchange for an honest review.