Catarina is a shy young Brazilian lady whose best friend is
a gaming buddy Al from the US. Al’s visually impaired sister, Teresa, is on her
way to São Paulo as an exchange student and Catarina is roped in to familiarise
Teresa in the initial days. Teresa is fiery and feisty with a long-term plan of
actually moving to São Paulo sometime is the future. As of now, she is
excited about the new university, her course and Catarina. It doesn’t take long
for sparks to fly between Catarina and Teresa.
This book is like reading a millennial Brazilian telenovela –
rather far-fetched storyline, dramatic (veering towards melodramatic), working
class ethos and pretty heavy on overreactions. The writing is riddled with
grammatical and spelling errors. Names are often incorrectly used. Inexplicably
and strangely we kind of decided to see it to the end rather akin to the
feeling of watching a a soap opera despite all its flaws.
If you’re in for badly written version of a telenovela with
a HFN ending, this one’s for you.
⭐⭐★
