The Education of Margot Sánchez
Ratings5
Average rating2.8
15
Ratings5
Average rating2.8
Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood.
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2.5. I was excited for this one but I'm not sure it's fully cooked yet. Some really great ideas and meaningful themes (family secrets, gentrification, class struggle) but the characters had no there, there, even Margot herself, but especially the secondary characters, and the plot mostly dragged but then zoomed into a kind of gritty events crash at the end that wasn't really dealt with.
Low 3 stars Honestly, the one thing I really like about this book is the cover. I gave it 3 stars because it did keep me entertained and I wanted to see how it would end, but damn this book has some truly awful characters. That said, I'd give this author another chance.
I wanted to like this book. I read the description when I picked it up from BookOutlet and it sounded promising. But it was poorly executed and it definitely reads like a debut novel. Margot isn't a likeable character. I mean, maybe neither was I at 15, but I would like to think that I didn't make EVERY bad choice possible and wasn't that judgemental and narcissistic. She doesn't have really any redeemable qualities. In addition to that, there's no real character development for Margot. It's kind of a sudden jump at the end rather than actual development. Every other character in the book is one dimensional. There's no chemistry. It's just all around FRUSTRATING. Everything is shallow, it was hard to read. Also, there is no need for that much conflict. There was so much going on it was hard to keep up and there was no real plot.
