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product_id: 98854219
title: "When We Left Cuba"
brand: "chanel cleeton"
price: "R$163"
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# When We Left Cuba

**Brand:** chanel cleeton
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When We Left Cuba

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An intriguing historical must-read novel
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 7, 2020*

4.5-StarsI’m eternally grateful to my buddy reader for bringing my attention to this book. Also, as Cleeton is a new author for me, the excitement I felt was tangible. This is one of the few novels I’ve read that incited some very interesting conversation between my better half and me; however, I did find the first half of the story a tad slow. That being said, I learnt to appreciate why the author had taken her time as my reading progressed. Basically, she was laying down the foundations of the Perez family’s dynamics, giving her readers the opportunity to get to know the heroine’s relationship with her parents and sisters, not forgetting her best friend.“...War has a way of sanding down your virtue.”Beatriz’s beauty takes away the breath of any mortal. A nonconformist much to one of the family member’s dismay, I totally understood why she had no wish to do what was expected of her. There’s certainly nothing to dislike about this young woman who’d fled Cuba in the military coup. Leaving a privileged life behind and grieving for the loss of someone dear to her heart, she’s having trouble adapting to her new surroundings, yearning to return.‘I have little use for false modesty these days; if you’re not going to fight for yourself, who will?’Despite her father losing his lucrative business, the family’s making the best of the cultural changes. She, on the other hand, is consumed with revenge, is unforgiving and strong-willed, these traits attracting who to my mind of thinking, was the devil in person. Of course, he isn’t but he might just as well have been. What she agrees to do is hard stuff but here’s the thing; the plot is totally plausible. The dates, places and the detailed account of such complex and at times, heartbreaking happenings were spot on.“The line between villain and hero is whisper thin and, frequently, a matter of perspective. Gray, Miss Perez. We operate in the gray.”Nick Preston. Ooh, my...such a beautiful and refined man. Older than her, he obviously has more experience in the ways of the world and political ideologies, which I liked a hell of a lot. They try to stay away from each other because there is so much on the line. Whether they are capable of doing so remains to be seen; nonetheless, there were some hellishly emotional scenes I couldn’t help tearing up over.‘He appears as though he’s painted in broad strokes, his visage immortalized by exuberant sweeps and swirls of the artist’s brush, a god come down to meddle in the affairs of mere mortals.’Moments of joy are few and far between in this historical novel of love, hate and forgiveness. I got so annoyed with Beatriz’s mother, her father staying in the background didn’t mean he was unaware of his daughter’s quest. There he was when she needed him most. I really liked how her younger sister Eliza steadfastly supports Beatriz and cannot wait to read her story which fortunately I can be read as a standalone.“But it is not good to always be at war, to always be fighting.”“I will try to keep that in mind.”So, Eduardo...Beatriz’s lifelong friend. I had mixed feelings towards him. He came across as loving and concerned but in the same breath, I felt he'd set her up, fed her to the lions for the want of another expression. And his confession was of no surprise.‘In another life, we might have been magnificent together.’When We Left Cuba is immaculately written. I thought the few passages narrated in third-person a valiant move on the author's part, a pleasant break in a story told in first-person. What can I say about the ending when all I can think of is the what-ifs. It was imperfectly perfect, leaving a smile on my face and bringing tears to my eyes. Bravo Cleeton!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great read!!
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2023*

I read “Next Year in Havana” so I had to read this sequel. Get both, you’ll love them.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good history refresher
  

*by M***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 3, 2022*

I read NEXT YEAR IN HAVANA and WHEN WE LEFT CUBA in that order.  These books are 50% historical and 50% romance.  Four stars for each.  I had forgotten so much history.  I knew Cuban refugees way back in the late 1960s.  Both books handle the historical side in a very good way:  Battista, Castro, Che Guevarra, the failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis (I remember the duck and cover drills in 1962 in elementary school), the shooting down of the U2, etc.  Castro died in 2016.  Nothing has changed nor improved in Cuba since Battista was thrown out and Castro took over in 1959. In fact, it is worse.  In 2022, Cuba is on the verge of economic collapse and civil unrest.  The historical parts of the book are very good and enlightening.  I found the 50% romantic side to be just a little too much, especially in WHEN WE LEFT CUBA.  Just my opinion but good books.  Now I’m going to read THE LAST TRAIN TO KEY WEST.

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