The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (The Perez Family #4)
Chanel Cleeton
At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman–Evangelina Cisneros–who changed the course of history. A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst’s newspaper in 1896, she’s caught in a cutthroat world where one scoop can make or break your career, but it’s a story emerging from Cuba that changes her life. Unjustly imprisoned in a notorious Havana women’s jail, eighteen-year-old Evangelina Cisneros dreams of a Cuba free from Spanish oppression. When Hearst learns of her plight and splashes her image on the front page of his paper, proclaiming her, “The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba,” she becomes a rallying cry for American intervention in the battle for Cuban independence. With the help of Marina Perez, a courier secretly working for the Cuban revolutionaries in Havana, Grace and Hearst’s staff attempt to free Evangelina. But when Cuban civilians are forced into reconcentration camps and the explosion of the USS Maine propels the United States and Spain toward war, the three women must risk everything in their fight for freedom.
Publication Year: 2021
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0 0I might have been born a lady, but we are remade in times of war.
When I read this was a story inspired by real-life events, I knew I was going to be hooked, but I had no idea it would truly pull me in and leave me gasping for more.
In 1896, Evangelina Cisneros is unrightfully incarcerated after trying to defend herself against the advances of Colonel Berriz. The officials thought this was Evangelina's ploy to attempt to free prisoners, which is why she's taken to a prison for women, one of the worst jails in Cuba.
In New York, we have Grace, a woman with dreams of making it big at a newspaper firm. Hearst from the Journal gives her an opportunity to be a stunt reporter. It is here she finds out about what's going on in Cuba, how there are many Americans who sympathize with the Cubans, and how Evangelina, a very attractive woman who was wrongfully jailed, could be the key to free Cuba from Spain.
I cannot think of a place I'd rather be than sitting among a group of women plotting revolution.
Chanel Cleeton keeps demonstrating how intricate her writing is. She really depicts the life of a woman, a Cuban one at that, during the late 1890's━it's hostile and alarming. While describing this much needed story so eloquently, Cleeton had me almost biting my nails in anxiousness over the need for survival these characters had. I felt like I was right alongside them in their fight to free Cuba, Evangelina, and the prisoners. There were so many sacrifices that had to be made and my heart broke every single time.
If you saw something you didn't like in the world, you should do what you could to change it.
Once again, Chanel Cleeton didn't disappoint and showed just how amazing she is at story-telling, world-building, and making the reader feel as if they were a part of the story.
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