Jet Silver
This was a random pick from a library shelf. The MC is an immigrant from Bolivia who works as a babaláwo in Miami, but doesn't believe in what he does. He's heavily in debt in that predatory debt-collector way and his "indebtedness" is a force that's almost a character in itself.
A debut novel and it showed a bit. I didn't love this—it didn't quite know what it was (when the copy says it's genre-bending, it means it), and I found the main character just plain unlikable. After his third or forth explosion of temper (always directed at women or someone with less social power than him) with no self-reflection I just didn't care very much about whether he 'won'. Flawed characters are excellent, but this was one of those times I felt like the author didn't see the flaws. However, I haven't read very much from Cuban-American authors and I appreciated the perspective.
This was a random pick from a library shelf. The MC is an immigrant from Bolivia who works as a babaláwo in Miami, but doesn't believe in what he does. He's heavily in debt in that predatory debt-collector way and his "indebtedness" is a force that's almost a character in itself.
A debut novel and it showed a bit. I didn't love this—it didn't quite know what it was (when the copy says it's genre-bending, it means it), and I found the main character just plain unlikable. After his third or forth explosion of temper (always directed at women or someone with less social power than him) with no self-reflection I just didn't care very much about whether he 'won'. Flawed characters are excellent, but this was one of those times I felt like the author didn't see the flaws. However, I haven't read very much from Cuban-American authors and I appreciated the perspective.