Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a type of romance novel littered with the unbelievable, and expressed in obscenities including many f-bombs--and in the current gutter-vernacular of the U.S. The reader is offered endless, worshipful details of a *department store* of all things! Cuba herself seemed relegated to being mere backdrop. Too bad. At the time that I all-too-eagerly chose this book as my freebie of the month, it was described as an historical novel. That was the basis of my interest. To be fair, initially I found the character Patricio likeable, but not enough to hang around for more than a few chapters. The character Gloria is unconvincing at best. The premise of the story line sounded good, but as it unfolded it struck me both as unappealing and unbelievable. The cameos of movie stars--especially that Ava Gardner nonsense--were silly. That's when I gave up. Bothering with this book was a waste of my precious reading time. Period. I deleted it, permanently.