L.A. Weather book review

Family dynamics… it’s too much sometimes. It’s way too much.

Thankfully, I don’t have to deal with the drama these people dealt with.

Today we’re talking about L.A. Weather by Maria Amparo Escandón. It’s a fiction book, very literary, and honestly… exceptional. Exceptional.

The book starts off really heartbreaking. There’s this situation with the granddaughters, and you’re immediately like, oh man… that’s too bad. But the grandfather was there, so what’s going on?

The whole time, you think something is off with him.

And then… it’s not what you think.

And then you get into the lives of the sisters—and that’s where everything really starts unfolding. And I’m trying not to go too far, because this book just keeps layering things.

This was actually recommended to me by my niece. I finished it and told her, “Let me know when you’re done so we can talk about it.”

She came back with, “Oh my god, I love this part.”

Y’all.

We had the same quote. The same quote.

I don’t know what that says about our family… but we loved it.

This quote really stood out to me:

"We wanted you to stay together because we were in love with your marriage more than our own."

That quote just stayed with me. You know when you’re listening to an audiobook, doing dishes or something, and a line just keeps looping in your head?

That was it.

And the crazy part is—that quote applies to everybody in the book.

You’ve got the parents, Keila and Oscar. Then their three daughters—Claudia, Patricia, and Olivia. Olivia is married to Felix. Patricia was with Eric and has a son. Claudia is with Gabriel.

And then you’ve got the siblings, the spouses, the extended dynamics…

It’s a lot.

But in a good way.

You just keep uncovering thing after thing after thing. It doesn’t stop.

The book was exhausting to read—and I mean that as a compliment.

I felt like I was running a marathon. You’re jumping between different lives, different perspectives, different problems, and it really does feel like watching a movie unfold.

Honestly?

It felt like the best telenovela you’ve ever read.

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That’s the energy.

And that quote… it hit for me because there are so many different marriages in my own family. I’ve been married for almost three years, so I get how your spouse becomes such a big part of your life. And how you root for your friends and family in their relationships.

Even when things aren’t perfect.

Would I reread this?

Absolutely.

Also—someone needs to turn this into a movie. Immediately. I would watch it.

This was such a good recommendation, and I’m so glad I read it. I burned through it so quickly because I needed to know what was going to happen next.

If you’ve ever read a book that felt like a full-on telenovela—with all the drama, all the stories, all the layers—you’ll get exactly what this is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0-u2KAWSE

Until the next book review, 

Kyla