Xochi and Pallas are the primary POVs, but Peasblossom (a cat!) has his fair share of screen time and magical realism adventures. One of the many fun and striking things about All of Us with Wings was the sheer number of point-of-view characters. The family members are, for the most part, distinct and interesting characters with different strengths and advice to offer Xochi as she heals from her past and navigates her present. The family is made up of members of the band and behind-the-scenes crew, and the people in their sprawling found-family are all adults except for Xochi and Pallas. All of Us with Wings throws us straight into the large, complicated, polyamorous family at Eris Gardens. I enjoyed how their dynamic shifted throughout the novel, and their relationship was the one I was most invested in.Īnd there are a lot of relationships in this novel. Xochi is on the cusp of adulthood, while Pallas is stepping into teenagerdom, and their growth affects how they relate to each other and the world around them.

All of Us with Wings is a fascinating story about growing up, both for Xochi and Pallas. Xochi, our heroine, is a bi, biracial Mexican-American girl who is trying to make a new life for herself in San Francisco. Review: (Note: This book includes rape/sexual assault, domestic violence/intimate partner violence, drug use, and a budding romantic/sexual relationship between a 17-year-old girl and a 28-year-old man.) She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe-not the family she’s chosen, nor the one she left behind. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in their household, which is relaxed and happy despite the band’s larger-than-life fame.īut on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas accidentally summon a pair of ancient creatures devoted to avenging the wrongs of Xochi’s adolescence.

Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Summary: Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl.

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