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After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez

9 reviews

pagesandtales's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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thewildmageslibrary's review against another edition

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4.0

This sure started off with a bang! XD I did really like this. It's got all the family feels, a haunted building, food, a hot nerdy professor, and more. Sure made me miss family gatherings though.

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kylieqrada's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was sooooo good. I loved learning about the history of traquederos in Kansas, and the setting was so fleshed out and real. The only part I didn't like were the sex scenes. Not for me.

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bookishmillennial's review

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challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

disclaimer if you’ve read other reviews by me and are noticing a pattern: You’re correct that I don’t really give starred reviews, I feel like a peasant and don’t like leaving them and most often, I will only leave them if I vehemently despised a book. I enjoy most books for what they are, & I extract lessons from them all. Everyone’s reading experiences are subjective, so I hope my reviews provide enough information to let you know if a book is for you or not, regardless if I add stars or not. Find me on Instagram: @bookish.millennial or tiktok: @bookishmillennial

I was so surprised by this one! Alex started this book off HOT! She did not hold back! I was howling at her first interaction with Jeremiah hahaha. Their chemistry and tension was off the charts. I was sweating reading this book -- also because we are having a wild ass heat wave (climate change is real) but still!! Angelina knew was she was doing writing this damn steamy book!

I actually had no idea about the 5th or 6th generation Mexican American families in the central states, but I wasn't surprised at these stories being suppressed and erased by our American history books. I deeply enjoyed the mystery that Alex and Jeremiah unraveled when it came to the ownership deeds of Loretta's bar. It was reminiscent of National Treasure but within a small town in Kansas with a bit more longing and banter hehe.

I also really enjoyed the introduction to Alex's two sisters Gillian & Sissy, and I look forward to their love stories next!

Steam: 3/5

Quotations that stood out to me:

Freedom, Kansas had been the home of her sprawling Mexican-American family for five generations, starting with her great-great León grandparents who’d arrived near the beginning of the 1900s. It was a story she’d gotten tired of explaining to people. No one expected a woman that looked like her—brown skin, ball of a nose with a wide bridge, black hair, and deep brown eyes—to be from the heartland. No one anticipated that her family sometimes had deeper and longer roots in the country than their white families had.

Apparently, she and her sisters could only get along long-distance. That didn’t change what she was here to do. She would double Gillian’s investment and make sure Sissy’s recipes shined on the menu. They didn’t have to like her. They just had to stay out of her way.

She seemed half his height, but the sense of her filled the room.

This was such an important story to be told, not only about who Americans were but about who Americans are.

“We’ll showcase the full story of Freedom’s evolution but, most excitingly, we’ll be able to tell the little sung story of the Midwestern colonias from Milagro Street, which was home to one of the first. This neighborhood, like other colonias throughout the Midwest, provided services, support, and a sense of home for Mexican immigrants arriving to work on the railroad. Even though few colonias still survive today, they are a large part of why you have pockets of fourth-and fifth-generation Mexican-American social groups in towns throughout the central states.”

“But please believe that the idea of me playing white savior to your community is anathema to everything I believe in and everything I’ve built my career on. I want who’s perceived as the winners to change. I want people to know that there’s a truer, richer story to our past than what they’ve been told. All I want here, all I care about, is that your family’s important story is heard.”

His passion, academic and nerdy, was like a flame between her legs.

How did he focus on her and not on the heavy weight of ineffectiveness he felt? How did he apologize for the centuries of entrenched other-ism based on the melanin in an American’s skin?

The big, goofy, hot, brainy, kinda sweet puppy.

You didn’t look like her, as Latina as her, without dealing with racism in all its glorious forms. Although most people would assume she’d jump straight to mad, she’d actually greeted it with every color of the rainbow—shock, a snappy comeback, a punch, a blank look and a hollow ache, ignoring it, losing her fricking mind.

He could do this. He could take care of this woman who took care of everyone else.

She claimed the title “bitch.” But she was the heart that felt too much. She was the angel who was enraged that she couldn’t avenge them all.

Everyone kept calling Alex strong. But what took more strength: Gripping on to a sword? Or putting it down and risking getting stabbed?

Small-town stories have sometimes bugged me for seeming to imply that an ideal, pastoral vision of America didn’t include people of color. Small towns are a representation of America, and that America includes my family: part of a community since 1908, tortillas at every meal, huge fifty-person family gatherings for lunch every Sunday after mass, a Mexican food stand at our town’s annual Halloween celebration, and piñatas at every birthday party.

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lexa's review

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5.0

Opposites attract / instant lust, but also kinda slow burn?? / a ghostly side character / small town with lots of history… and family / only. one. bed.

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dearbookboyfriend's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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sdupont's review against another edition

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emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Please do not sleep on this book! It has everything- ghosts, mystery, hidden inheritance, family drama, and a spicy love story. I enjoyed this book so much, I will say the ending is a little rushed. This book would’ve benefitted from an epilogue to help tie things together. I really liked Alex, she was so full of passion for the people she cared about. Also, it needs to be repeated that this book is hot-

the scene where they masturbate with each other through a wall while in their own adjacent bedrooms is so steamy and will continue to live rent free in my mind

. Highly recommend this read!

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krysley's review

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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100_pages_hr's review against another edition

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hopeful inspiring mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

The best part of this book was actually the historical value. I learned a lot about my home state I never knew. I appreciated learning about the Mexican traqueros and how they built their lives in the United States.

I also enjoyed the mystery aspect of the story but I'll admit the supernatural parts were a little much for me.

Alejandra and Jeremiah's relationship was... interesting. It was definitely enemies to lovers and the forced proximity was wonderful but I think Alejandra's hatred was a little too venomous for me.

This was a great Latinx Own Voices book that will give you a lot to think about in terms of racism and perceptions.

I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley. This is my honest review.

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