Last Train From Cuernavaca, Lucia St. Clair Robson
Last Train From Cuernavaca, Lucia St. Clair Robson
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Last Train From Cuernavaca

Author: Lucia St. Clair Robson

Narrator: Rebecca Cook

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2012


Synopsis

In the Christmas season of 1913, Grace Knights elegant old hotel on Cuernavacas main plaza is the place to see and be seen. Mexicos landed aristocracy, members of the foreign community, wealthy tourists, and young army officers with their wives flock t

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tara

I learned alot about the Mexican Revolution throughout the reading of this novel tho it did get a bit confusing at times. There are at least two different groups of revolutionary farmers, a group of federales, a group of renegade federales, and then some bandits thrown in here and there and after a......more

Goodreads review by Anne

Nobody does historical fiction like Lucia. Her metaphors and similes are guaranteed to bring a smile when they spread across the page smoother than a whore's patooty. No, she does it better. The story unfolds in slow, gentle increments that don't sacrifice romance for action, but paces each so that......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

A fairly interesting historical novel set in and around Cuernavaca and Mexico City during the early twentieth century. Three major characters and a beliveable romance that actually is romantic. Plenty of adventure, and try not to read the author's note until you finish the novel itself, it's worth i......more

A fairly formulatic story, however, it is based on the true story of two women during the Mexican revolution, an English woman who owns a hotel in Cuernavaca and the daughter of a Spanish-Mexican and Indian woman from a middle class family who fights as a man leading a guerilla ban fighting with Zap......more