4 stars!!
i did really enjoy this one, i appreciated the different storylines and timelines and how they all came back to tie the story together. loved the setting! historical fiction with a big dose of mystery and romance

The book centers on the distaster surrounding a radio station who edited Orson Welles’s radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds, leading people to believe Ecuador was actually being invaded by Martians in 1949.
In four distinct narrators, a beautiful layered story is told.
Matias & Valeria in the 1949- 1957 timeline and Marisa & Alicia around 1935. I really appreciated how unique the narrators were, and even though the book bounces around in timelines and narrators I found it really easy to follow.
The pacing at the start was languid and great for getting to know Quito and the characters.
I really enjoyed this book, and happy to get another eARC by Lorena Hughes, thanks to NetGalley.

This book was medium paced and I was able to get through it in a few days. Each chapter felt like a bit of a cliffhanger, I was always wondering what was going to happen next. Initially, I enjoyed the dual POV between Matias and Valeria; however, adding two more perspective ins was a bit too much for me. The book was overall just fine- I wouldn’t deter anyone from reading it but I don’t know that I would recommend it also.