Furia

Name: Furia
Author: Yamile Saide Mendez
Genre: YA, Drama, Dreams, Sports, Romance
Rating: 4.3/5

Review:
Furia is a story set in Rosario, Argentina, where everyone is crazy about Soccer.
Camila Hassan is a seventeen year old girl who is passionate to play soccer.
Her dream to play football isn’t easy, when her narrow-minded mother and strict father wouldn’t allow her to play soccer, on the other hand, her rising soccer-star brother only fuels her desire.

Camila leads a double life, being a disciplined daughter in her home and a passionate soccer player in the field. Her passion, La Furia is too big and too strong that it wouldn’t be given up. But everything’s chaotic when her first love and soccer star, Diego returns to Rosario.

Each member of Camila’s family share the same dream, yet reflects a different aspect of it. Her mother, whose lost her dream before everyone else. Her father, who was tied down because of his family. Her Brother, Pablo, who chose love over his dream and Camila, whose dreams was her life.

Camilla is a strong character, strong willed and passionate. I liked her alot from the very beginning.
This is an inspiring and empowering story of following one’s dreams and finding one’s passion. I would recommend this book to every teenager, regardless of one’s gender because dreams and passion has nothing to do with one’s gender.

The narrator was amazing, she has done an amazing job at narrating this book. She was able to bring out all of the emotions the perspective thoughts and even the silence of the protagonist. She expresses it so well that we were lost in the story, feeling everything the protagonist was feeling. The way, the narrator included songs, slangs and language was appreciable.