Review: All the crooked saints

“It is, after all, not the tasks people do but the things they do around the edges of them that reveal who they are.”

Rating: 3/5 ★★★ If it weren't for Maggie Stiefvater's annoying, over the top and flowery writing style, I would have given All the crooked saints a higher rating. I just can't with her metaphors (that make no sense whatsoever) and unnecessary paragraphs. Plus, there's something that Maggie has to understand: writing long paragraphs about random stories and peculiar character traits, doesn't equal character development. It just doesn't. All it does is making the character even more difficult to relate to. In fact, I couldn't care less about the three cousins, Beatriz, Daniel and Joaquin. They read like John Green's characters, annoying and impossible to relate to. I did like Marisita tho. But one thing she does very well tho is creating the perfect atmosphere. As soon as we entered Bicho Raro I was swept away by it. But still, there were some random stories I would have avoided, like the human-eating dogs and the mean horse that ate its own name (wtf????) All in all, it could have been way better but it also could have been worse. To me no Stiefvater book is ever going to be better than The scorpio races.