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All in all, I quite enjoyed this. While I'm no expert on Mexican culture, it did provide a breath of fresh air in a typically whitewashed genre. It wasn't necessarily the greatest story ever told, but when it was all over, I enjoyed my time spent reading this.

It's a slow starter, like many books, but now it's getting really good, really quickly.

I originally rated this three stars, but this book did something that few books do: it stuck in my head, and I kept thinking about it long after I'd finished it. The premise may seem like cheap sci-fi up front, but it makes you think about life, planned obsolescence, and more.

It’s not the content I don’t like. It’s the writing style. The stream of consciousness devolves into sentences that are paragraphs long, and paragraphs that span multiple pages. Sometimes I just had to skip ahead past the unneeded description and fantasizing until the plot resumed. I still can’t figure out how the book ended, even after re-reading it.

I’d read another of this author’s books, though. I feel like there was some great promise here, but it was poorly executed.

Just what I needed to hear, and put in the form of a story to show, not tell.

The epitome of a slow start. I didn’t care about most of the cast until the halfway point… and then it wasn’t bad.