About the Book

Reporter Sylvia Amenabar loves her vida loca. Just months ago, she and her three best friends – Adriana, Juli and Tori – were happily single, hoisting mojitos at their weekly get-together. Now, everything’s changed. All four women have sexy men in their lives – and Sylvia’s not sure she likes it that way.

Sylvia’s got a reputation to maintain as Miami’s hottest new journalist. But when her latest assignment threatens to smear Adriana’s boyfriend, Riley, and too-good-to-be-true hottie Carlos, and her mother is hell-bent on reuniting with her father, Sylvia finds that life and love and family aren’t things you can control!

The Long Story

I always love a good chick lit book, and with things getting a little hot and steamy right in the first chapter, I knew for something good with South Beach Chicas Catch Their Man.

There is a lot going on in this book, something that I enjoyed very much. Sylvia faces a lot of choices as her friends move along happily in their steady relationships and she has to dig into the painful past of Carlos and much of the force to figure out who’s dirty, who’s clean, and just who is involved.

Not only are there a lot of choices to make, there are a lot of things – friendships and relationships – that ride upon those choices, upping the drama to new levels.

Even though this was a sequel, I didn’t feel particularly put off during reading it because of that. I, of course, now want to read the first one, but I don’t feel it’s a necessity.

I enjoyed this book a lot not only because I was relieved to not have to hunt down the first book to understand what was going on but because it showed five (watch out for Sylvia’s mum!) successful women who built it all themselves and are now enjoying the best out of life. It is always a pleasure to see female characters in a book who aren’t completely hopeless with men, their jobs and just about everything else.

Caridad does well not only exploring the relationships of younger women but also in exploring the relationships of the forty-somethings who society sometimes forgets about in the romantic realm.

The Short Story

This book is perfect for a bit of light (and hot!) reading for the last days you can manage to get on the beach this season or during your candlelit baths.

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Rating: 4 stars

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South Beach Chicas Catch Their Man
By Caridad Pineiro
http://www.caridad.com/
ISBN: 9781416514893
Length: 285 pages