A review by stormlightreader
What They Said About Luisa by Erika Rummel

4.0

I really liked the structure of this book. Each chapter is one very detailed POV for each character (who only appears once), but this brings the story together well. This structure made Luisa feel like something of an enigma because we learn about Luisa through 'what they said about Luisa' (clever title *smiley*). We get all of these different perspectives about this woman who is quite reserved and at the same time has quite a big impact on a number of individuals over the course of the story. At the 12% mark I wondered if we would get to see what Luisa is like and if she'll match up to the demonised character she'd been made out to be in some POVs, but interestingly, we don’t hear from Luisa at all. Instead, the other characters are so well developed that we get the vast majority of Luisa's story through them. It took me a few chapters for me to stop wondering how the other POVs were relevant to Luisa’s story, but each chapter comes together, It just would've been nice to maybe have an epilogue from Luisa's POV to round off the story but regardless, this was a really good book.