Weep, Woman, Weep: A Gothic Fairytale about Ancestral Hauntings by Maria DeBlassie – Review by Lauren Schnoebelen

Weep, Woman, WeepWeep, Woman, Weep by Maria DeBlassie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.75⭐️

In a small town in New Mexico, there is a legend that the residents don’t talk about. Every day down by the riverbank on at dusk the Weeping Woman gains her power and lays in wait to baptize young women who venture too close to the water’s edge. Their pain and tears give her strength and every mother warns their daughter to stay away or else she’ll return with forever damp hair and bloodshot eyes to live in a world of sorrow and never a moment of happiness. Knowing the truth, Mercy and her friend vow to do whatever it takes to keep La Llorona just out of reach.

I had a hard time with the start of this book. The narration style of Mercy talking directly to the reader is not my favorite but I can see why the author chose to go that route. What I appreciate about this book is that on goodreads it’s tagged as a horror which I can definitely see while also striving towards this underlying need for hope and true happiness. In the beginning I wasn’t the biggest fan of Mercy but once we got to the point in life where she was in her late 20s, early 30s I really started to root for her. I liked that the author focused on food and farming as a type of medicine and how it’s easy to have dreams but harder to actually make them become a reality. Even though this isn’t my favorite story, I feel that it’s going to stick with me a lot longer than most which makes me happy that I read it.

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