![]() I really enjoyed the story being told through her perspective as it makes you remember the age of our main character. Writing Style: This story is told in first person through the perspective of our main character, Omega. I love that you can feel the amount of love everyone has for each other seeping out of this book. I love how supportive each of the characters are of her and how they are supportive regardless of her differences. I really loved the relationship that each of the characters that are introduced has with our main character, Omega. Right off the bat it is hard not to fall in love with each of the characters that you are introduced to in this story. You get to meet her family, her best friend Carlitos, and a ghost that lives alongside them, Clau. I like how these images bring the story to life and it works really well for me since I have a hard time picturing what I am reading.Ĭharacters: In this story you are introduced to several characters through their interactions with our main character, Omega. Something that I really enjoy about this book is the added images within chapters. I loved the references to Mexican folklore that this book includes because so much of these tales were things that I grew up hearing about. I love that this book is spooky but not too scary to frighten the younger audience. This is a perfect read for second graders and up especially during this spooky season. I am happy to say that I loved this book as much as the young adult books if not more. But also prior to this thought, I was so happy to see that the author had now written a middle grade book since I loved her two young adult books so much. I am glad to tell you all that this story is not about lettuce at all but that would have been funny. Thoughts and Themes: My first thought is that I keep reading Lechuza as Lechuga and was really confused about there being a legend regarding lettuce that I hadn’t heard about. Please give her and her book the love it deserves! Laekan Zea Kemp also mentioned via Twitter that her book launch event went terribly wrong with the bookstore not having any copies available for those who showed up. I’ll likely be continuing the series when the next book comes out as the ending left me with a lot of curiosities. Omega Morales and the Legend of La Lechuza came out last week and is the first installment in a middle grade fantasy series that is sure to be a blast. I just think it leaned a bit too far at justifying a bullies actions. Though I disagreed with the message of forgiving your bullies because they’re helping you grow as a person, I can understand where the author was coming from. The themes that stood out to me in particular were those of forgiveness and empathy. Since the book is a middle grade, there are several lessons/morals that are being taught through the plot. Throughout the story, there is also a strong family dynamic of Omega and her relatives being protective while also giving the kids space to learn for themselves, something that I thought was well done. I thought she, her brother, and her best friend Clau were incredibly written. ![]() She was so believable as a tween character while also being reasonable and relatable. I also thoroughly enjoyed many of the characters in this book, Omega being my favorite. A mysterious morally-grey type of villain is right up my alley, so La Lechuza’s characterization really appealed to me. ![]() That being said, I loved the legend of La Lechuza and am interested in doing some searching to learn more about it. My exposure to Latinx folklore is pretty restricted in that I learned most of what I currently know from reading books like this one. I didn’t like the audiobook narrator, and it took away from my enjoyment of the novel. Now that I’ve completed it, I know for certain that I should have read this book instead. In a town where cats and children are in danger of going missing, Omega and her friends band together to get to the bottom of who La Lechuza actually is.īefore I get to my review, I want to preface this by saying that Scribd had the audiobook available, so I decided to listen to that instead of reading my physical copy. Our main character, Omega Morales, comes from a family of magic practitioners, but her world is turned upside down when La Lechuza, someone she wasn’t even sure was real, shows up and begins calling out to her. Omega Moralez and the Legend of La Lechuza is a middle grade fantasy novel based on the Mexican legend of a shape-shifting witch named La Lechuza.
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