All The Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater is a new young adult fictional standalone novel.
The Soria family deals in miracles. People from all over find themselves drawn to the Soria’s because everyone wants a miracle right? But not everyone realizes what it takes to get one.
This generation of Soria’s revolve around three cousins: Beatriz, Daniel and Joaquin. Beatriz is eccentric and brilliant but emotionally stunted; Daniel is the Saint of Bicho Raro who performs most of the miracles; and Joaquin leads a double life as a pirated radio personality–Diablo Diablo. Along with Peter, an outsider who just wants to work, these three cousins will change the way the Soria’s do things forever.
What happens when saint’s need their own miracles? Will they be able to face the darkness and save their way of life? And what will they learn about themselves along the way?
Maggie Stiefvater is just such a diverse writer. She can do different types of narratives and her stories are just so unique. I really enjoyed All The Crooked Saints. First off, that title–stellar! Second, it was just a really interesting story with some really great takeaways.
The narrative was really interesting here. It actually reminded me of Anna-Marie McLemore’s style in a way, where a lot of the narrative is commentary and observatory. The language was also magical and whimsical. This was probably my favorite part of the novel. The dessert itself is often personified and this only adds to the magical feel of the story.
The characters were done in such a way, where you were given just enough information to build the character in your mind rather than being told entirely who they were. I don’t know if that makes sense but it worked.
For some reason I am finding it really hard to write this review but I thought All The Crooked Saints was a great read and I would definitely recommend it to others. This one gets 4 high stars from me.
That’s all for now!
-M-
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