This week’s podcast review: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton comes from this blog review.
Author of YA & Fantasy Fiction
This week’s podcast review: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton comes from this blog review.
C.A. Gray is the author of the YA Fantasy PIERCING THE VEIL trilogy, as well as the NA Dystopian series, THE LIBERTY BOX. By day, she is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor (NMD), with a primary care practice in Tucson, Arizona. Additionally, she writes medical books under her real name. She is blessed with exceptionally supportive family and friends, and thanks God for them every single day! Read More »
I am not a huge fan of historical fiction, but I loved this book. Chanel Cleeton is a new to me author, and I’m so happy I took a chance on this book. It is beautifully written, and I feel like I learned so much while reading it. This story goes back in forth between two characters and two times. Some chapters are in the present, from our heroine Marisol’s pov. The others are from the past, 1958 to be exact. They are from Marisol’s late Grandmother, Elisa’s pov. It’s a few months after Elisa’s death and Marisol takes a trip to Elisa’s home country of Cuba. Elisa hadn’t been there since the late 50’s when her family fled. Marisol and her grandmother were very close. She thought she knew everything there was to know about her grandmother, but as it turns out, there is so much she didn’t know. I loved discovering all these things along with Marisol, and hearing about them through Elisa’s voice. While in Cuba, Marisol learns so much about her heritage, her family, and about love. Things take a complicated turn towards the end of the story as she falls for a Cuban man.