THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

“ I’ve given up on hope, from now on I fight.” – Nina Guerrera       THE CIPHER by Isabella Maldonado Thomas & Mercer Intense, thrilling, with a kick-ass Latina Heroine. Yes, I read it in one sitting, and yes, I love this "Warrior Girl" Nina Guerrera, who survives a nightmarish childhood, who thrives in the face of adversity, and brings villains to justice. I kept picturing a Latina Dr. Samantha Waters with brown hair, who gets inside the minds of serial killers to solve heinous crimes. The dynamic between Nina and FBI Mind Hunter Jeffrey Wade was brilliantly complicated. Not enemies, but certainly not friends. By the end, they learn to trust one another and have each other’s backs.  We’re hoping for a Book 2. We don’t want to let Nina and Wade go.  Maldonado’s writing is realistic, sharp, precise, graphic, and well detailed. It helps that she is a former Police Captain.  This made the book very intense, very suspenseful, and very addictive. Reade...

Agora / Polis Everything changes here and  everything stays the same.  --Viridiana Desire. Glamour. Dreams. Deceit.   One hot summer. One bored teenager. Three enigmatic tourists. Viridiana is bored and tired of watching the local fishermen bring in their catch. Anything is better than staring at dead sharks so when three tourists show up in town, Viridiana welcomes being their guide.   She is enthralled at their glamorous lives, clothes, manners. But then one of them dies and Viridiana is soon caught up in shark infested waters of her own.   We loved this book. It’s suspenseful, compelling and a fast read.  We couldn’t stop until we knew the ending. SUMMARY:   Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She’s bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled...

    Buyer Beware! Cyber pirating is a serious crime against the artist, the reader and society at large. Luckily, we have some really great tips on how to safeguard against cyber pirating from paralegal and author Raquel Zepeda Fitzgerald. And, she’s even written a fun, imaginative novel, TORRENT TRAGEDY , about a cyber pirate who gets just what he deserves. Luckily, The Latina Book Club is able to bring you an excerpt of this novel. EXCERPT TORRENT TRAGEDY By Raquel Zepeda Fitzgerald Next morning around 10 a.m. Steve walks into his office to tell him about the surge they just had in downloads of that new book. Right before Steve came in, he heard a sound like something had been dropped into the urn sitting on his credenza. When Steve looked at him he gasped and said what happen to your teeth? What do you mean? Your tooth, you’re missing a tooth,” he said. “That’s crazy.” But then he could feel that he was missing one fron...

  El Latino Book Club presenta por primera vez reseñas de libros en español por autores Hispanos y Españoles. Empezamos con uno de nuestros autores favoritos, Juan Gómez-Jurado, cual tiene un libro nuevo, EL PACIENTE, esta cargado de tensión y emociones. Esperamos anxiosamente su traduccion al Ingles.     //      The Latina Book Club presents for the first time reviews of books in Spanish by Latino and Spanish authors.   We begin with one of our favorite authors, Juan Gómez-Jurado, whose latest novel, THE PATIENT, is full of tension and swirling emotions.   We eagerly await the English translation.   EL PACIENTE por Juan Gómez-Jurado ( Editorial Planeta) RESEŇA:    El prestigioso neurocirujano David Evans se enfrenta a una terrible encrucijada: si su próximo paciente sale vivo de la mesa de operaciones, su pequeña hija Julia morirá a manos de un psicópata. Para el Dr. Evans se inicia una desesperada cuenta atrás cuand...

         Forgive me, Father, if such forgiveness is still an option for my salvation.   Tomorrow will be another day.   Maybe this time the better me will learn to fight back and the demon within will be gone.    –Your humble son… Your fallen angel       WOW!   From the first page – the first murder! – I was hooked.   I almost missed by train stop because I couldn’t stop reading.     Manuel Meléndez has written an engrossing, fast-paced, suspenseful, pulse-quickening, goose-bump raising thriller, which would certainly gain the approval of the author’s literary heroes – Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock!   WHEN ANGELS FALL ( Aignos Publishing ) is about the eternal battle between good and evil.   It’s about the duality of man’s soul, about the atonement of sins.   It’s about isolation, obsession, revenge and justice.   It’s about friends and l...