Tortilla Sun

BOOK NAME: Tortilla Sun
AUTHOR: Jennifer Cervantes

Tortured by the mystery of her father’s death, Izzy struggles to live without understanding how her father died. When looking through some boxes she found a baseball with the words, “because…magic” written on it. Determined to find out what the missing words are, she asks her mother who offers no information. All her thoughts simmer in her head until she goes to spend the summer with her grandmother. Slowly, her grandmother opens up, sharing information about her father Izzy never knew. After a few days, she feels she is getting to know her father better than she might have if he was still alive. Izzy continues to look for answers and slowly unravels the mysteries.

Almost all the characters in the book had Spanish names so it took a while to catch on to who was who in the storyline. The characters were fairly predictable–each one had a different background story, but the author wove all the stories together so they all related somehow throughout the book.

Honestly, even though the author obviously put time into sharing details of how each of the characters felt, the overall story line was somewhat dull for me. I didn’t really enjoy this book at all, but I think it may have been written for a younger crowd.

Comments

escape2books
October 15, 2010, 12:48 pm

I hate when books are predictable!!!! I will definitely stay away from this book.
tiger45
October 15, 2010, 2:43 pm

I think that sometimes when I read a book they are better than the summary, so I think I’ll give this book a chance
zoenightshade12
October 15, 2010, 4:55 pm

My grandma got this book before it was published and she gave it 2 me. i read a couple pages, and it was ok, but it didn’t really GRAB me. It sounds ok, but I think I’m just too busy for OK books. However, if u aren’t reading a lot of books currently, i’d say GO 4 IT!

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~zoe <3
deathmastr
October 16, 2010, 3:15 pm

looking at the cover design it looks like a book for a little kid about some mexican folk tale no offense but it does. in my opinion a better and more attractive cover would be something with a half a girls face and the other half a man it makes more eyecatching and in the back ground a worm hole ( the kind that comes from a black hole
teddydude
October 17, 2010, 1:56 pm

I really wanna be a blogger how do I start?
great reveiw!
mega
October 17, 2010, 2:00 pm

this book was ok but i think they did not put alot of effort
Anonymous
October 18, 2010, 3:04 pm

Another predictable book yipyee hoorah. but i agree with you escape2books it is really annoying because it is no fun reading something when you know the ending.>8(
jindo2108
October 19, 2010, 6:04 pm

Yeah, I must say this doesn’t look like my kind of book. The cover reminds me of this cover of this picture book, Arrow to the Sun. Ahh! In kindergarten I LOVED that book!
escape2books
October 20, 2010, 3:09 pm

Emelie, it seems that lately you have blogging books you do not like. Could you please good books, or your favorites? I would like to know what books to get, not avoid.
sonny
October 25, 2010, 2:10 pm

this book was truely aamzing. I have nothing else to say. but apparentely I will when my teacher introduced me I wasnt interested but Ired it and I loved the book.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
November 13, 2010, 8:34 pm

emelie,i’m sorry but i have to agree with escape2books.do you like most of the books you are reading? if not,then i can recommend some.(your choice)
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
December 24, 2010, 2:27 pm

I have never read that book,and it doesn’t sound that interesting to me.I would really like to know not which books you are not going to recommend.
PatheticallyPathetic
January 12, 2011, 10:32 am

I am most certainly starting to review books I love more! I’ve been reading a lot more interesting ones and will review them!