Language: PG (4 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG13
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
A life as traveling merchants has taken Narra (17yo) all over with her sister and mother – except for the city where she was born, Bato-Ko. Her mother told Narra never to go to Bato-Ko, and maybe she would have listened if her mother had returned from her last trip to the city. But now Narra will do whatever it takes to find her mother, even impersonate her sister to enter a competition that could cost her life.
Barbosa is Filipina-Canadian, and I loved reading the Filipino influence in the culture and language of Narra’s story. The premise was intriguing, and it’s always nice to have a determined heroine who fights against the odds, but I found myself skimming several times. There was a lot of expository-style writing that kept me from being engaged in the action of Narra’s story.
Everyone described is nonwhite. The mature content rating is for partial nudity. The violence rating is for blood, knife use, mentions of suicide, fantasy violence, and murder.
Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen
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