I don’t do horror. I just don’t like to be disturbed by what is usually happening in horror stories. It is one of those things where you want to grab the protagonist and help them run away, before what ever happens, happens.
Yuiza, however, is fully aware that she is in the middle of a horror movie. She even has voiceovers from her tias and her friends, commenting on each of the details that are happening.
It all starts out normally, if it could ever be normal. Yaiza receives a scholarship to a prestigious pre-school, but is not told, until it is too late, that as a scholarship student, she has to do work-study to help pay her way. That she has to pay for her uniforms. That she has to pay to have a dorm room that is anything more than the bare minimum.
And the working students have labels on their uniforms that say what they do, but not who they are. The servers, the gardeners, everywhere she looks, they are all like zombies, forced to toe the line.
And that isn’t even getting into the fact that all students have to be chipped, so they can find them when they want to.
The frogs on the cover refer to a childhood song about healing through frogs. And Yuiza has to call on those frogs for help, as things get worse and worse.
The sad thing about this whole story is that this is actually going on today, in real life. Perhaps not with the chips, but the burden of work-study. The hardness of trying to fit into a school where you are the token minority. Racism is a horror unto itself.
There is a great line in the book that sums this up: “Victims weren’t hidden in walls and basements. They were heaped in plain sight. Perpetrators claimed racism didn’t exist even as they trampled over the bodies.”
And, if you do end up reading the book, which gives three different endings, I have a bad feeling that the most real of the endings is the first one.
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