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After reading the first seven pages of How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents i started to think that i wouldn't like the book. I am hoping that will change because my reading of this book is a requirement. I did not appreciate the authors third person omniscient point of view. My person feelings on the matter are I do not like when authors use that point of view because I prefer to get thoughts from one character about the other characters versus having an all-knowing narrator that tells us everyone's feelings but only vaguely. As far as the plot was concerned I learned very little from the first seven pages and was not hooked which is the job of the beginning of the book. I learned only some details about thoughts or feelings and seemingly meaningless descriptions of children's interactions with cake. The front cover seemed interesting but kind of threw me off track. It was appealing but I didn't understand the purpose of a women's legs in nice dancing shoes. Or at-least I think they were dancing shoes. To end things on a positive note i was very interested as to why they were forced to leave The Dominican Republic. I am interested to hear about the "girls" fathers involvement in the attempted overthrowing of a dictator. I am also interested to find out how the girls adapt and assimilate to teen culture. On top of that i wish to know which aspects the girls decide to become involved in. Although I am not overly pleased with the beginning of this book I am hoping the end turn-out is different.
