vynexareads 's review for:

The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

4.5

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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There are those who are afraid that the change we seek will leave them pushed to the fringes of a society they have mercilessly dominated for so long.

Cleeton has a way of bringing characters to life, but she really did it with this book, especially since the majority of the characters in this story are actual people.

She wrote a 362 page novel about an event that rarely ever is talked about, a person who went through so much for her freedom and the freedom of her Island and taught me a part of my ancestor's history.

After reading the author's note, it made me want to do my own research and learn more about this war, but also about Evangelica Cisneros though there isn't much out there about her after 1898.

Cleeton will always be an autobuy/autoread author for me. She helps me feel closer to the history of Cuba, of my blood, and for that I will always thank her.