I've had this book on my radar since it came out (I mean, the cover alone), and finally decided to pick it up. The premise is great; a teen bruja, Alex, lives in Brooklyn with her magical family, her mom and two sisters, Rosie and Lula. While the rest of her family loves having magical powers, Alex is traumatized by her past and her father leaving, and blames magic for her family's tragedies. She meets a hot, mysterious boy named Nova who eventually helps her save her family, whom she accidentally banishes to another dimension, Los Lagos. This book is pitched as being like Charmed, but with Latinx characters and a bisexual heroine, which makes it seem pretty awesome. 
 Unfortunately for me, this book just didn't deliver. I didn't connect with the writing, which I felt over-utilized similes (sometimes every single sentence in a row featured a simile), was too simplistic and almost childlike, and did a lot more telling than showing. At one point a character's name is said and then the narrator repeats it phonetically, assuming the reader can't figure it out. I didn't think the characters felt real or said things that real people would say; overall, I just couldn't connect with any of them. However, Alex did grow on me, and I liked her interactions with Nova (which I thought had more spark than with her other love interest, her best friend Rishi), but everything still felt a little flat to me. I think if I hadn't just finished a book recently that has noticeably stunning and atmospheric writing, then the writing in this book wouldn't have bothered me so much, but that was just where I was at when I read this book. 
 The journey through Los Lagos reminded me a little bit of MirrorMask, but I didn't really see the Charmed comparison, except for something that happens at the end of the book that I'm 99% sure totally happened on Charmed as well. I think if there were more scenes with the sisters, I would have enjoyed the book a bit more and that comparison would have been more apt. Overall, the writing just didn't do it for me and I don't think I'll be reading the future adventures of the Brooklyn Brujas, but if you are looking for a quick-paced, fantastical read with diverse representation, I would still recommend this book.