From the back of the book- One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burns straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors.
Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely- smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty. The local priest is convinced it's a demon, but Lourdes begins to suspect it's something else- something far more ancient and powerful.
Review- A quick read about some young women learning about their own power with the help of an ancient goddess. Lourdes and her friends are just searching for someone to listen to them and their pain and when just playing around, they summon an ancient goddess of women, children, and filth. The goddess and Fernanda have things in common and thus Fernanda makes a good home for the goddess. Then the goddess starting doing what she was worshipped for, she is many things but a sin eater is one of her most important actions. Add in a mystery about women in their neighborhood going missing, the priest being very weird, and other problems that women have in general, then you have the plot. The different perspectives of first person of Lourdes and third person for Fernanda and the goddess was a good way to tell this story, it helps the reader know where and when they are. Castro is a good writer and I look forward to reading more of her work.
I give this novella a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library.
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