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Summary: Very entertaining reading
Review: As a 35 year resident of Miami and a Private Investigator, I found Bloody Secrets to be both great fun and very accurate. The author captures the essence of a truly magic city and its inhabitants. It is a excellent entertainment value. I have read the two previous Lupe Solano books and have particularily enjoyed the maturing that Ms. Garcia-Aguilera has demonstrated as a writer. I look forward to reading her latest works.
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Summary: Not much "mystery"
Review: I have read the author's other two books and enjoyed them immensely but this one left me flat. Lupe is tired and is need of a vacation away from her office, Leonard, etc. Carolina's characters are wooden and flat this time and so is the story compared with the other two I have read.
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Summary: Not much "mystery"
Review: I really enjoyed the earlier books in this series. But "Bloody Secrets" did not live up to that standard -- the mystery was thin, the writing repetitive and tedious, and at the end a few areas remained unclear or contradictory.
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Summary: A refreshing change of pace
Review: This is my first time reading 1/a contemporary, first-person P.I. story and 2/a Lupe Solano story.While I appreciated what the author was trying to convey with the history in Part I, it was basically reportage rather than engaging fiction that makes you want to stay up late and keep reading. However,once Lupe appears, the story really starts to take shape. It's a fun, quick read, and I was surprised how wrapped up I got in trying to figure out how things would turn out in the end. I recommend it and will read her other stories to see how she has grown as a writer. I appreciate the minimal use of profanity and sex. I liked the insight into the Cuban community and history and culture. Perhaps it's standard structure for this genre, but I didn't like the action being stopped in order to spoon-feed the reader a multi-paragraph biography each time a new character appeared.
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