Dear Haiti, Love Alaine was an interesting book. The cover is freakin' gorgeous and it's everything I want in a cover. Alaine was not my favourite MC character, I did not like her tbh. She seemed like a know-it-all, who had mommy issues. I did appreciate her smart sarcasticness because she was a brilliant girl. The daddy-daughter relationship was IT for me, love love love that. Alaine's Tati is a boss btch but sis its basically impossible to be an active CEO and an active minister of any ministry. I have people close to me in government (close to the system in Haiti w/ ministers etc) and it just no... It wouldn't work. This by far is my biggest complaint of the whole book.

The format of the Dear Haiti, Love Alaine was different and I can't say I loved it BUT I didn't hate it. The writing style was nice, considering it was two people blending themselves together (I also love how it was sisters, that makes me all warm inside). It was outside the realm of normal though. The plot, oh the plot. I wanted to be invested and everything but a curse? I would have enjoyed it more if the rest of the plot around the curse was interwoven into it better but it seems like the curse plot-line was a thing Alaine picked up and put down when it suited her throughout the book. The ending was not tight at all, I think it could have been done a WHOLE lot better. I'm not sure what the ending was supposed to be telling the reader... There were a lot of extra characters that took away from the story when it could have been a tighter unit with fewer characters.

The history was one of my favourite parts of the book! I was disappointed at how Alaine started out in regards to her personal history but I loved how she appreciated it by the end. (The family background history with Alaine, CHALL it was a lot). I enjoyed learning about Haitian history in general. Haiti gets really disrespected by just about everyone and I thought this book gave it a lot of dignity. I enjoyed seeing how the upper class in Haiti live because the image of Haiti portrayed is usually poverty and slums.