Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Review-Tigers, Not Daughters (Tigers, Not Daughters #1) by Samantha Mabry


Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Published: March 24, 2020
Genre: Contemporary/Magical realism
Source: E-ARC
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Blurb:
The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sister’s memory. Their dream of leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start happening around the house: mysterious laughter, mysterious shadows, mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana really is haunting them, trying to send them a message—and what exactly she’s trying to say.

In a stunning follow-up to her National Book Award–longlisted novel All the Wind in the World, Samantha Mabry weaves an aching, magical novel that is one part family drama, one part ghost story, and one part love story.

Review:

Every now and then a book leaves me speechless and nothing I say or do can do it justice. This is one of those times. Tigers, not Daughters is the story about three Latina sisters learning how to cope after losing the eldest sister when she fell from her bedroom window. 

All these young women wanted to do was escape. Instead, they’re stuck in a place they don’t want to be, without a way out. Or so they think. We’re taken on such a beautiful adventure that will leave you breathless. 

Haunting yet gorgeous; I was left feeling so much.  We’re taken on a bittersweet journey of hope. Because there’s only one way to go up when you feel you’ve reached rock bottom. If you read anything in the next few weeks, let it be this one. You won’t regret it!

*Thank you to the publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts and opinions are subjective but my own. 

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About the author:
Samantha was born four days before the death of John Lennon. she grew up in Dallas, playing bass guitar along to vinyl records in her bedroom after school, writing fan letters to rock stars, doodling song lyrics into notebooks, and reading big, big books.

She spends as much time as possible in the West Texas desert.

A FIERCE AND SUBTLE POISON (Algonquin Young Readers, spring 2016) is her first novel.
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