Xochi, our heroine, is a bi, biracial Mexican-American girl who is trying to make a new life for herself in San Francisco. Review: (Note: This book includes rape/sexual assault, domestic violence/intimate partner violence, drug use, and a budding romantic/sexual relationship between a 17-year-old girl and a 28-year-old man.) She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe-not the family she’s chosen, nor the one she left behind. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in their household, which is relaxed and happy despite the band’s larger-than-life fame.īut on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas accidentally summon a pair of ancient creatures devoted to avenging the wrongs of Xochi’s adolescence. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Summary: Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl.
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