The Hummingbird’s Daughter is the August bookclub book (yes, I’m way ahead of my self… of course, I have not read July’s book, The Diary of Ann Frank..  we are planning  another virtual discussion in a couple of weeks!). But I digress.. 

To sum up this book, I liked the story, but not the writing. The beginning was slow, a lot of people and not much story.  The story picked up towards the middle, and was really quite interesting.  But I didn’t  find it  very believable, so I was surprised by the section at the end with the author talking about  20 years of  research, and the basis on real people in the author’s family.   I think the author struggled to write a story mostly about women, the story came across with a very male point of view (and I won’t attempt to explain that!)

My first thought is I would have liked it more if I knew more Mexican history,  a little more Spanish, and the historical basis.. Like I needed to be smarter.  OR maybe the author could have written the story in a way this would not have mattered … maybe I have explained it.