Full of drama and angst.

Was confusing at times.

I have to say from the beginning that I think this was not a good choice on my part. I say this because this book was originally written in Spanish and I'm not too fond of reading translations when I can read the original text because my mind ends up picking up possible faults in the translation. Therefore, I constantly felt that there were things that could have been improved. This definitely affected my reading experience.

I actually decided to pick it up, though, because I wanted to try this genre: historical romance. I have to say that after reading it, I can say that this is not the genre for me. It was hard for me to keep up with all their feelings and the way the characters talked about each other.

There is a scene that disturbed me pretty badly. It's a scene where the main character and her boyfriend are having sex. She starts having some kind of memories where she was being abused. However, she doesn't tell her boyfriend that she's going through a rough time. They don't even talk about it later on or anything. I feel like this is a weird way of passing up a moment where one of the people participating in consensual sex is feeling uncomfortable and violated and the other participant is not told to stop. I'm not sure if this is done to show that she's drifting away from him or what but I think that it's not done in the best way possible.

The main character leaves the home she shares with said boyfriend for a week. She goes back to her family's house in the countryside. There she keeps having some visions about her past, she starts to remember things from when she was younger. She reencounters her relatives. Her uncle is pretty suspicious from the beginning. He is the one acting weird. I have to say that his character was one of the most interesting ones in the book for me.

There is something that didn't feel completely right for me. That is the moment where there is some kind of time travelling. That moment just felt anticlimactic. It's weird to suddenly see someone called like the main character, so you assume it's her, but she's acting a bit differently.

I'm not sure exactly what happened to me with this book but I haven't really enjoyed it. It makes me sad but that's the truth.

*I received an ARC copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*

I received a copy of this in exchange for a review.

I would love to review it, but I could only make it about 40 pages in. It was terrible and I dreaded opening it.

Stars: 3.5/5
Recommended to: Fans of time travel novels, fans of fiction.
To be Published on: August 15th, 2017

Thank you to Netgalley and AmazonCrossing for allowing me to read this novel!

The first thing that drew me to this book was the cover of it. I know, I know, "Don't judge a book by its cover." but in this case, I definitely think it was worth it. This novel was very good and I am glad that I was able to pick it up. Brianda struggles with a lot during this novel, learning that a new friend isn't quite who she seems, many deaths, relationship strains, and many other things that aren't as normal (like remembering things from a distant past.)

Brianda has real traits, she was definitely not a Mary Sue in my eyes. She had real worries and went through a lot of tribulations. I felt that she was very grounded and was a well rounded character, someone that the reader could connect to.

The reason why I gave this book 3.5 stars was because I felt that the middle, when we learn of Brianda of the past, was dragging on. I understand that we needed to know about what happened so that we could get back to the Brianda of the present, but it felt like too much was going on. I didn't enjoy it because there were too many people coming into the novel so quickly. I had already learned the character's names from the Brianda of the present, so having to learn around ten new names and jumping into a story that was in media res was something I wasn't expecting.

Once I got through the first time that the author did this, it became easy to understand the chapters from the past and the characters in them. As I came closer and closer to the end of the novel I found myself trying to read faster because I wanted to know how it ended. I needed to know how it ended. 
This book holds a wonderful and dark world about the past of distant villages and towns that history does not pay attention to anymore.