This book had some very interesting imagery. The use of fire as passion used through out the book was a unique way of looking at passion. There were many times when reading the book that I was taken by surprise by the sexual imagery used. I would be reading along and then out of the blue the author would describe these passionate encounters between Tita and Pedro or Gertrudis and I would just stop and have to reorganize my thoughts and focus back on the story. It was refreshing to read a story that did not brush aside the importance of the physical in a relationship. I also felt that is was done in a very tasteful way and not pornographic or excessive in any way. I feel it was used to heighten the feelings that the reader would have for these characters. Physical passion is a large part of the Hispanic culture. If the physical descriptions were left out then I do not think that it would have been a very accurate depiction of that culture and the hidden passion that Tita and Pedro had for each other.
The ending of this book was very shocking to me. I really thought that after all of the abuse and hardships that Tita went through that there would be a classical happy ending. She did have the happy ending for a short time. Something like a page or two in the book and then the author felt the need to kill Pedro.
All in all it was an interesting story with some nice twists and surprises, but once again a very dark love story with a questionable ending.
I agree that the end of the book was shocking. First, I wasn't expecting Tita and Pedro to be together, and the fact that Pedro died at the very end was pretty out of the blue. It seemed so random, almost like the author wanted to just break Tita more than she'd already been broken. I just felt like it was too excessive and it could have ended better.
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