Tito's Whore

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Summary: A First-Rate Thriller
Review: ...and a book to keep you up all night! This was a fascinating read, well-crafted, full of surprises, with characters you really care about. I'd love to read more from this author.

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Summary: Disjointed and pretentious
Review: This novel begins well with the story of a disillusioned teacher fleeing Southern California to teach in a small community in Mexico. Before long however, the novel disappoints the reader with a lapse into a "Pretty Woman" type theme that never quite elevates to the point of believability or sympathetic character development. Language in the novel is pretentious when the author inexplicably decides to use words one does not hear in normal converation. Perhaps an attempt to impress? The story line is quite disjointed and frankly uninteresting. The attempts at suspense and intrigue fall short of the goal. For a very good novel that takes place in Latin America that is written by a North American author I highly recommend Imagining Argentine by Lawrence Thornton. That novel has truly sympathetic characters, flows very well, and makes the reader care about what happens to the wonderful people that come alive in the book.

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Summary: romance, sex, murder and thrill-a -minute encounters,
Review: Took the book to bed and stayed up reading its entirety. There are twists and turns with every chapter and the ending left me breathless.