I had high hopes for this book but it had a few issues for me. The first one being the lack of contractions in the dialogue. It worked for the characters who weren't native English speakers, but for the Americans it felt clunky and unnatural. I realize the author is Spanish so that's probably how she speaks herself, but its something that really takes me out of a story when the dialogue feels unnatural.

Secondly, I didn't like the abrupt start of the book. It was confusing and disorienting and I feel like I never fully got into a comfortable groove with the characters because of it. This could've been easily better by just switching the order of events around a little bit in the first chapter.

Thirdly, I didn't like the love interest. For most of the book he felt creepy and overbearing, constantly pushing boundaries and crossing lines. I found it a little bit scary tbh. Yes he did turn out to be a nice guy in the end but it didn't feel 100% genuine and he still seemed a bit creepy tbh.

I did like Lina and I liked her journey of learning how to trust and to be more honest with herself and her family, I wish we'd spent more time with her family I think it would've made for a better story.