Weep, Woman, Weep: A Gothic Fairytale about Ancestral Hauntings by Maria DeBlassie – Review by Kayla Kearney

Weep, Woman, Weep by Maria DeBlassie
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

As someone who minored in Spanish in college and was always fascinated by the tale of La Llorona, this was the perfect book to read to start off spooky season! Weep, Woman, Weep is a a modern story about the weeping woman, also known as La Llorona, and the effects she has on a small town called Sueño near the Rio Grande. The book follows Mercy in her efforts to remain ‘unbaptized’ by La Llorona, many years passing throughout the span of the book. Watching her attempts to break the generational trauma passed down to her made the book even more fascinating to read.

By the time Santos is introduced more than halfway through the novel, I was sucked in, even more so by his introduction. The automatic chemistry between the two made it impossible to put the book down after that point. Everyone reading this book will be dying to know if true love prevails or if the weeping woman will get her way with Mercy. The only thing I don’t like about the book is that it ended far too quickly, making me wish there was more to this amazingly haunting story!

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