Highly recommended.ĭisclaimer: I read a signed advance reader copy of this book, which I obtained at SLJ’s Day of Dialog. This novel will be available in October, 2017. Brilliantly conceived characters and a complex, desperate plot are told through a filter woven of Latino culture and the intricacies of a singular family legacy. However, the old-world feel of this 1960s story is also shot through with Maggie’s own sly, winking humor. Stiefvater’s new work is soaked in magical realism, which means that I am all in from page one. All the Crooked Saints is a love letter to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, and all of the other South American writers for whom the veil between the rational world and the world of infinite possibilities is gossamer-thin. I had no idea how she could follow the spectacular success of her “Raven Cycle” series, but I can tell you now that she did it by changing gears completely. True confession: I have been a Maggie Stiefvater fan for years.
Unfortunately, Pete is bringing disaster along with him. Pete Wyatt is on his way to Bicho Raro, because he has been promised that he can work for the Sorias in exchange for a certain box truck. Their cousin, Daniel, is the current saint of Bicho Raro. Joaquin Soria and his cousin Beatriz run an AM radio station from the back of a box truck that has been abandoned in the desert. If the saint tries to help the pilgrim, his own darkness will come out, and a Soria’s darkness is much, much worse than any pilgrim’s. The second half of the miracle is distressingly difficult and sometimes endless: the pilgrim has to find a way to deal with his own darkness before he is healed, with no help at all from the saint, the saint’s family, or anyone who loves a Soria. The first half of the miracle is that the saint will make your darkness visible in concrete form. Pilgrims come from all over the world to ask for a miracle. The Soria family was driven from their home in Mexico because the people there were afraid of their magical powers, so they settled in the Colorado desert in a place they call Bicho Raro.
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