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The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
4.0
Thank you so much to Netgalley & Berkley for the ARC of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba.
I became obsessed with the Perez family and the Cuba saga by Chanel Cleeton earlier this year when I first read Next Year in Havana. I love how Cleeton gives her main characters so much depth and that they are all strong female leads. The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba felt more historical than the others did, and for the first half of the book it made it a little slower for me. I really liked all three women in this story, how their stories overlapped and what they brought into this book. Marina was my favorite, hands down. Her story was so heartbreaking and you could just FEEL the love she had for her family, her country, and the hope she had for her future despite the hardships they were facing. I didn't cry in the first three books, but Marina made me cry in this one. Grace was definitely a spit-fire character who was not scared to go after what she wanted and I always love a girl who is taking control of her own life. Evangelina became an unexpected hero for her country and I spent SO MUCH TIME researching her after I finished this story.
The research was definitely done for this book. The issues of the women left behind in Cuba, the re-concentration camps, and the war waging on in NYC between newspapers are topics I have never explored in a book before, let alone all of them weaving together to create such a strong story as this.
This was probably the heaviest out of all of the Cuba books for me, but the soul in this story is REAL. I definitely recommend this if you enjoyed the other books by Chanel Cleeton.
Posting my review to Goodreads now and will post to Instagram on publication date 05/04/2021.
I became obsessed with the Perez family and the Cuba saga by Chanel Cleeton earlier this year when I first read Next Year in Havana. I love how Cleeton gives her main characters so much depth and that they are all strong female leads. The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba felt more historical than the others did, and for the first half of the book it made it a little slower for me. I really liked all three women in this story, how their stories overlapped and what they brought into this book. Marina was my favorite, hands down. Her story was so heartbreaking and you could just FEEL the love she had for her family, her country, and the hope she had for her future despite the hardships they were facing. I didn't cry in the first three books, but Marina made me cry in this one. Grace was definitely a spit-fire character who was not scared to go after what she wanted and I always love a girl who is taking control of her own life. Evangelina became an unexpected hero for her country and I spent SO MUCH TIME researching her after I finished this story.
The research was definitely done for this book. The issues of the women left behind in Cuba, the re-concentration camps, and the war waging on in NYC between newspapers are topics I have never explored in a book before, let alone all of them weaving together to create such a strong story as this.
This was probably the heaviest out of all of the Cuba books for me, but the soul in this story is REAL. I definitely recommend this if you enjoyed the other books by Chanel Cleeton.
Posting my review to Goodreads now and will post to Instagram on publication date 05/04/2021.