Hot Tamara

• Publisher:   Avon A
• Number Of Pages:   272
• Publication Date:   2005-02-01
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0060739894
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780060739898

Tamara Contreras will never again settle for unmemorable sex. Her long-time boyfriend may look perfect to her traditional Mexican-American parents -- something Tamara has never been -- but at twenty-six she wants more from life than marriage and motherhood. So in front of everyone, Tamara does the unthinkable: She turns down her boyfriend's unexpected marriage proposal and leaves home for L.A.

Tamara thinks she's got the single-girl-in-the-city thing down, until she runs into Will Benavides, the former high school bad boy turned firefighter. If Tamara's parents had known how Will lit up her teenage fantasies, she'd have been shipped off to the nuns for sure! Now Will wants to make those fantasies come true permanently.

When an unexpected opportunity lands in her lap and Tamara has to choose between the career and the man of her dreams, she wonders if maybe la familia was right after all ...

Hot Tamara by Mary Castillo is about a 26 year old woman who is struggling breaking away from her parents' hopes and desires for her in order to become her own independent woman. She first gets rid of her long-time boyfriend whom her parents love but she dislikes. Then she leaves home for L.A. in order to pursue her dream of one day owning an art gallery. Along the way she meets up with her high school crush, Will Benavides. I highly recommend this book. All of the characters are well rounded and easy to relate to. It isn't often that someone encounters their high school crush after high school or that they end up getting another chance to confess their feelings for each other but in this book they do and Mary Castillo very realistically portrayed this. All in all a very good read.

Please don't waste your money on this book. For being a Latina Mary Castillo could not possibly get her Spanish any worse. In one scene the a character says "deseo besarle otra vez" WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? deseo besarte otra vez or te deso besar otra vez COME ON what would a little proof reading hurt anyone?? The story line is weak, characters aren't well developed. Extremely glad I recived this book for free and did not waste one cent on it.

I don't read romance novels and I did not expect this to be a romance novel. I thought it would be more along the lines of Alisa Valdez Rodriguez style as I found this author through her. I have to say it was the most enjoyable romance novel I have read and seemed true to life and the location it was set in. I then read Mary's second novel and liked it even better. I am not going to start reading romance novels but I will read any new work by Mary Castillo.

All I should say about this book is SAVE YOUR MONEY! Not only is the theme trite and hackneyed, but the worst part is that the author, who is Hispanic,cannot get her Spanish right! How hard can it be in Los Angeles to come up with a competent proof reader? I concede that there are instances in which the author obviously intends the Spanish to be colloquial, but they are far outnumbered by the glaring, blatant mistakes. Using foreign words and phrases just for the heck of it and not providing a treanslation is pretentious enough, but to get it all wrong is impardonable. Given the option, I would not have given this piece of trash even one star, and will certainly avoid buying any other books by Ms. Castillo, although as a general rule I support and enjoy reading modern Hispanic fiction. Mrs. Brooks M. de Cervantes

Part chic-lit, part traditional romance. I loved it! The characters are well drawn and the Latin flavor is so strong, I felt I was home with my own family for Sunday afternoon BBQs. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to read an authentic Latina romance.

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