Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my free digital ARC of this one! I liked the author’s first novel translated to English (This World Does Not Belong to Us) but remember finding it a bit confusing and opaque at times. Unfortunately, Freire’s second offering in English translation takes that opaqueness to another level. The premise really drew me in - Mildred is a girl wronged by her village, and so curses it after her death. But then all the chapters deviate from Mildred to the townsfolk and the aftermath of the curse, and all the different POVs make it feel too disjointed. I’m also sad to say that somehow a violent curse felt quite dull. It took me over a week to read this tiny book, which is indicative of how unmotivated I was to pick it up. 

I did love the collage art at the start of every chapter!