Weep, Woman, Weep: A Gothic Fairytale about Ancestral Hauntings by Maria DeBlassie – Review by Vanessa Watts

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

The title of this book doesn’t quite do the authors storytelling any justice. This is a truly powerful novel that every female should read once in their lives. As we follow the main character Mercy through all the sorrows her life contains, we see that it is all too easy to become wrapped in the sorrows of our past.
Mercy loses her very best friend to La Llorona and almost herself. It seems living in their small town of Sueno all the females are within her grasp and once she pulls you under no one can escape her. That is until Mercy chooses to defy her by not letting the sorrow of the weeping La Llorona to pull her under and instead focuses on happy thoughts to save her. This is a big about growing to be more than what your past dictates in a retelling of the story so beautifully written that you are feeling everything the characters feel. This brings about sadness, despair, depression, love, and hope for a better tomorrow. With a good moral of the story that we are only limited by what we chose to give a piece of our heart and soul too. It is all to easy to play the woe is me card, but it takes an inner strength to stand your ground when things get tough. Most females have gone through or experienced what the main character goes through and that is truly what makes this book so impactful. If you haven’t yet, I encourage you to take this journey with Mercy, this is one book you don’t want to miss.

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