Hmm. I went through many different moods reading Olga Dies Dreaming, there were sections I loved (the romance), and others that just didn't work (too much telling). Ultimately it felt like it was trying to be too many things: a political thriller, a romance, a history lesson, a family drama. It seemed like until about 3/4 of the way through Gonzalez was still introducing new characters, new story lines, which meant that things got wrapped up too fast, and I didn't care about a lot of it. The 'telling' was all about the history of Puerto Rico, and although I was frustrated because this is a novel, I certainly did need to be told that island's history, because I knew very little about it.