THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

The Latina Book Club is celebrating Valentine’s and Galentine’s Days all week long.   Each day we will feature a new Latina romance author for your reading pleasure. Enjoy and remember to Read Latino Lit and Read Romance. DID YOU KNOW?! Romance readers bought $1.08 million worth of romance novels in 2013 according to BookStats!  MEET SABRINA SOL. She calls herself, The Romance Chica, and it fits.  Sabrina writes spicy romance stories featuring smart and sexy Latina heroines.  Sabrina is part of a large, extended Mexican family who loves to laugh and eat.  Because of that, family and food are strong themes in many of her stories. Learn more about The Romance Chica by visiting www.sabrinasol.com . DELICIOUS DESIRES ! Sabrina’s romance series is called Delicious Desires from publisher Entangled: Brazen, and they are hot, hot, hot. Book 1, DELICIOUS TEMPTATION opens the sexy series with a bad boy and a go...

The Latina Book Club is celebrating Valentine’s & Galentine's Days all week long.  Each day we will feature a new Latina romance author for your reading pleasure.  Enjoy and remember to Read Latino Lit and Read Romance. DID YOU KNOW?! A true Romance Statistic:  84% of women read romance novels according to Nielsen.  Women romance readers are between 30-54 years of age and  some have been reading romance for over 20 years.  Men read romances too -- 16% of them.   Meet Priscilla Oliveras.    She writes contemporary romance novels with a Latino flavor that are well-written and full of fun and welcoming characters.  Priscilla is half Mexican; half Puerto Rican. It was her Dad – not a typo! – who introduced her to romance novels while they were waiting in a hurricane shelter in the Florida Keys. Viola! A devoted romance reader was born. Years later, while in college Priscilla decided to try h...

REVIEW:  SANTA MUERTE: THE DANIELA STORY BY LUCINA STONE   As we count down to Halloween and Day of the Dead this week,   The Latina Book Club   will bring you some “dark and intriguing” books to stay up late with.    Happy Reading.  And always, Read Latino!    Story Merchant Books La Santa Muerte in Mexican tradition is the beloved goddess of death and a protector of souls residing in the dark underworld. I can see the connection with Lucina Stone’s new novel, SANTA MUERTE: THE DANIELA STORY. Our young heroine learns that she too is a protector, and soon she will learn what she is truly made out of. Suspenseful. Mysterious. Captivating. Engaging. Lucina Stone’s SANTA MUERTE: THE DANIELA STORY is an amazing and imaginative debut and the great start to a new series. Readers will enjoy the magic and the time travel elements, as well as the struggle of our heroine to accept that she is a bruja, and to come to gri...

  It's Memoir Week here at The Latina Book Club .   Do let us know which memoirs/biographies you would add to our list. Happy Reading.   Simon & Schuster "At least it's never boring." --Mami's favorite saying   Brando Skyhorse's memoir is at times funny, poignant and simply outrageous. Imagine growing up thinking you are an American Indian -- Mami's good intentions aside! -- and   then learning that your whole life was a lie, that you are really a Mexican.   TAKE THIS MAN is Skyhorse's search for his true identity and his real father. BOOK SUMMARY:     When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one. The life of “Brando Skyhorse,” the American Indian son of an incarcerated political activist, was about to begin. Through a series of letters to...

  The Latina Book Club is pleased to have selected LOTERIA as its January Book of the Month.   We tell our own stories.   We have our own tablas. So what happens when something is missing?   It's like the thing that's missing might be the one thing I need in order to win.   And why do I always need the one thing that's not there?                                                             --Luz Maria Castillo Authors are always trying to be original, trying to find new ways to tell a story.   Mario Alberto Zambrano has succeeded.     His debut novel, LOTERIA, is full of lush writing, vivid descriptions and nail-biting suspense.    Zambr...