After reading a few chapters, I decided this book held no interest for me at this time nor was it a good fit for my blog.  I elected not to finish the book now, but it may well be a case of "the right book at the wrong time" syndrome and I might be willing to try it again in the future.  Thank you to Grove Atlantic / Grove Press and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to sample this title.

This book was very disappointing - I was initially interested in the main character and her complex relationships, but it dragged on without much happening, and within the first 100 pages I was bored.

Perhaps I disliked this book because I couldn't relate to the characters and didn't like them, but despite these failings I might have enjoyed it more if there had been an exciting plot  - unfortunately there wasn't.

This is a beautifully written book and I was in awe of the descriptive style.

I adored the title and the cover is stunning.

The tale is about family and all it's complexities, Raina, i visits her brother, Carlito in jail every weekend. he has been imprisoned for throwing his girlfriend's daughter over a bridge. 

Carlito was thrown over a bridge by his father, which for me was quite shocking that a man would copy the crime of his father in such a brutal way., but this is what gives this story an edge that you don't get very often.

Raina is an amazing character and I loved her story, this is a book that I am recommending and I for one loved it.

Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read this book.

This story had lots of promise and I wanted to like it more than I did. Actually, the first part of the book held my interest, but that waned in the second part.

Reina comes from a complicated, dysfunctional family. Her brother was her everything - until he committed a heinous crime and was on death row. Reina was his only visitor and she made quite the effort to never miss. However, part of that was her guilt for her part in his crime. This is the part of the story that felt so real and drew me into the characters.

It slowed down after Reina moves to the Keys and takes up shelter in a little cottage. She meets Nesto, an immigrant from Cuba, who has a family there that he is trying to get to come to the states. 

I found myself using the translator on my Kindle quite often in this book - many Spanish phrases not translated.