Cafecito With Drea

💛💛💛💛💛 5/5 “...it is sad, of course, to forget. But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten. To remember when no one else does.” V.E. Schwab , The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Ok I will admit, I have been on a writing slump. Between the election and the time change, my inner clock and anxiety have been a hot mess. But this book.... oh this book was everything that I needed and much more.  So let me dive into this before I lose my mojo again.  ❤️ Who Is Addie?   Addie is a 23 year old woman from a small village outside or Paris. Addie is strong-willed, ambitious, adventurous, curious. Everything that a woman from the 1700’s should not be. Addie has dreams of traveling, meeting people, and not staying in the village to raise kids and just die ( I loved this girl from day one)  When Addie is set up to marry a recent widow, she is unable to accept this faith. In a last desperate attempt, she runs into the darkness and prays to the wrong God. When the...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 Do I dare call this book thriller of the year? Yes, within this book you will encounter two wrenching stories, 25 years a part of rape and murder in a small beach-like North Carolina town. Trigger warning: The book goes into detail about the atrocities one of the characters (Jenny) went through prior to her killing. A little about The Night Swim: In an age of True-Crime Podcasts (Which like many of you, I enjoy), we meet Rachel Krall a Podcaster who became an overnight sensation with her Podcast: Guilty or Not Guilty. In her newest episode, she drives to the town of Napoli to cover a rape trial that involves two prominent families in the small town. K (the victim), is the granddaughter of the past and loved sheriff. And Scott Blair (the accused), a golden boy, destined to be the next Michael Phelps. As Rachel begins her work, she begins to get letters from a mysterious source begging her to look into the “Murder” of Jenny Stills, a 25 year old case. The ...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 Hola! It has been a little while since I last wrote my last book review, and I finished The Last Flight about 2 weeks ago! 🤦🏽‍♀️  I will get the hang of Blogging one sweet day. 🚫 Just a note regarding The Last Flight, if you are sensitive to topics such as domestic violence and drugs, this book may not be a fit. 🐛 Just a little bit about The Last Flight, the book follows the life of two women, who unfortunately were given a bad hand at life. Circumstance led to one having to drop out of College and sell narcotics. The other woman is in a very unhappy marriage, with an abusive husband ,  who happens to be a very powerful man running for a Senator seat. Coincidentally, the two women meet at the airport, and decide to switch boarding passes. One woman lands Safely in San Francisco, while the other woman is on a plane that crashes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. 🐛 Drea’s Take: WOW right?? Just reading the synopsis I was so intrigued, I had to a...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5  Mallard, a town in Louisiana founded in 1848 by Alphonse Decuir. “As he stood in the sugarcane fields he’d inherited from the father who’d once owned him. The father now dead, the now-freed son wished to build something on those acres of land that would last for centuries to come. A town for men like him, who would never be accepted as white but refused to be treated as Negroes.” - The vanishing half, Brit Bennett.  🐛A quick background of this fantastic book: twin girls, the sisters Vignes grew up in the town of Mallard. They are the great granddaughters of Alphonse Decuir, and can both pass as white women. When the pressure from growing up in a town where they were not allowed to marry anyone darker than them set in, the sisters disappeared. Both took two different paths, one returning to Mallard after an abusive marriage, and the other sister becoming a white woman and moving to a prominent suburb in Los Angeles.  🐛Drea’s take: I have a ton of emotions...

I took this book with me on a beach trip to Cancun, and so glad I did. Just a little background of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, tells the story of Mexican socialite Noemí Taboada. Noemí is sent to visit her cousin Catalina who has been sending frantic letters to Noemí’s father in Mexico City. Catalina lives in high place with her English husband and his family. The letters spoke of Catalina seeing ghosts on the walls of the house, which immediately made Noemí’s father worry and sent her on the first train to El Triunfo, which is where High place is located🖤 🐛Drea’s Take: i couldn’t put it down! Even at 2:00 AM, freaking out I had to keep reading! What I loved about this book was the references to 1950s Mexico, and it instantly takes you back to old movies with Pedro Infante (who is referenced in the book) The book is set in the Golden age of Mexican cinema, with ghosts? What else can a girl ask for! The author even made a Spotify playlist to go with the book! So, should yo...

Hola world! My name is Andrea and I was born in the beautiful country of Colombia. I developed a love for traveling from my abuelita, who is not afraid of a plane ride. I enjoy submerging myself in a good thriller novel, while indulging in uno or dos cafecitos. Cafecito with Drea was born from my addiction to caffeine (yes I admit it) and because writing, reading, and drinking coffee for me make me who I am. Welcome to my blog and I hope I can inspire to get out of your comfort zone, pick up a book or two, live a little louder, and stay wild. Salud!