The jungle always requires sacrifice

This is a new series on my social media that I called “books that deserve more hype” I am going to be sharing reviews of books I read, and I believe they deserve more hype on social media for the quality of the literature they contain and not base on the popularity a book already has. Today we are talking about a book called “El Cielo de la Selva” it is probably gonna be translated as “The Sky Abode the Jungle” by Elaine Vilar Madruga her social media IG handler is @elainevilarm is difficult for me to write a review for this book because is such a complex book the storytelling and the profound meaning and metaphor on The whole book is breathtaking literally it feels like a brutal raw punch on your gut that let you breathless. It’s important that we continue searching for Elaine’s work as I think she will be one of the most influential Latinx voices in our generation. The story is gory and feels like a febrile dream in a Caribbean jungle. Coming from the jungle as a hungry God who is greedy and never stop asking for blood and every time the sky turns red it requires a sacrifice. The constant birth and doesn’t have the chance to be a mum is a metaphor in my mind of how motherhood is brutal and raw for some females on my Latin America. The jungle is the heaven and the hell for every female, a place ripped between narco, guerrilla and death. This book is about the females, the pain of being females, the building and growth of the characters is palpable and you feel their pain, you can sense the hate for the jungle. The survival in the jungle isn’t free, and everyone needs sacrifice something in this story everything orbits around the jungle as a God and females and how the females base their existence on produce meat to feed the god and their sexuality is based just on produce meat and satisfy males. The Caribbean setting of this horror story is not unreal for the millions of victims of human trafficking worldwide. This book is truly painful to contemplate when you think deeply about it. There are beautiful details in this book that I adore. Every chapter ends with a word and starts with the same word. As a reader, I appreciate an author that can WRITE well. Saying all this, I need to tell however is reading this review, this book isn’t for the weak of heart or spirit is brutal and grotesque with a splendid prose. In this blog, we belive is a full 5’s ⭐️