Title: Historically Inaccurate
Author: Shay Bravo
Type: Fiction
Genre: YA, Contemporary
Publisher: Wattpad Books
Date published: September 29, 2020

A complimentary digital copy of this book was kindly provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

It only takes one moment to change your life forever…

After her mother’s deportation last year, all Soledad “Sol” Gutierrez wants is for her life to go back to normal. Everything’s changed―new apartment, new school, new family dynamic―and Sol desperately wants to fit in. When she joins her community college’s history club, it comes with an odd initiation process: break into Westray’s oldest house and steal . . . a fork?

There’s just one problem: while the owners of the house aren’t home, their grandson Ethan is, and when he catches Sol with her hand in the kitchen drawer, she barely escapes with the fork intact. This one chance encounter irrevocably alters her life, and Sol soon learns that sometimes fitting in isn’t as important as being yourself―even if that’s the hardest thing she’s ever had to do.

⤖ My Review ⬻

The stunning cover for Historically Inaccurate is the first thing that pulled me in. I just found that it was so different and so pleasant to look at! After reading the synopsis, I was a little confused and very very intrigued. The part about the stolen fork had me wondering what would happen, whereas the part about Sol’s mother getting deported made me very angry as well as wanting to read the book so that I can find out what happened. The only other book, off the top of my head that touched on this subject matter was Lobizona by Romina Garber, which I read last year.

Now, having read Historically Inaccurate from cover to cover, I’m even angrier over Sol’s mother’s deportation and that so many families go through this simply because a group of people choose to be hateful and not care about their fellow human beings. I could go on and on about this.

While reading Historically Inaccurate, I will note that I felt as if I was losing grasp of the plot at times. But maybe that’s because I’m used to most of the books that I read being structured a certain way. This is not a good thing in itself, because structure can mean predictability. I know that most fictional stories have to follow a certain formula in order to leave the reader satisfied at the end, but I will say that I like that Bravo strayed from this a little because it left me a little bit unmoored, and it left me guessing.

When the plot took a turn, I was therefore quite surprised, and also happy to have been kept in the dark about what would happen! I struggle with predictability because on one hand, I feel proud of myself for figuring out what would happen ahead of time, but a bigger part of me is upset that I lost the surprise element. Historically Inaccurate was unlike anything I’ve read before and presented me with information and a plot that I had not encountered before. I enjoyed it!

⤖ About the Author ⬻

Shay Bravo is a Mexican born author who has now lived half of her life in the USA. She began sharing her work online through Wattpad when she was fifteen years old and has connected with over 114,000 followers. Historically Inaccurate won the 2019 Watty Awards and is her first novel. Shay currently resides in Houston, Texas.

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