Valiant Ladies, Melissa Grey
Valiant Ladies, Melissa Grey
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Valiant Ladies

Author: Melissa Grey

Narrator: Frankie Corzo, Almarie Guerra

Unabridged: 12 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/14/2022


Synopsis

Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in Valiant Ladies, Melissa Grey's YA historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth-century Latinx teenagers known as the Valiant Ladies of Potosí.

By day, Eustaquia “Kiki” de Sonza and Ana Lezama de Urinza are proper seventeenth-century young ladies. But when night falls, they trade in their silks and lace for swords and muskets, venturing out into the vibrant, bustling, crime ridden streets of Potosí, in the Spanish Empire’s Viceroyalty of Peru.
They pass their time fighting, gambling, and falling desperately in love with each other.

Then, on the night Kiki’s engagement to the viceroy’s son is announced, her older brother—heir to her family’s fortune—is murdered. The girls immediately embark on a whirlwind investigation that takes them from the lowliest brothels of Potosí to the highest echelons of the Spanish aristocracy.

Reviews

In a Nutshell: A fun book though a bit ‘in-your-face’ with its writing. Will work great for its right audience –the upper end of the YA reading segment, maybe even the NA crowd. Older readers might end up rolling their eyes. Story Synopsis: Kiki and Ana are best friends from different circumstances. A......more

Goodreads review by Maria on October 08, 2024

OJITO, SI TE VAN LAS HISTORIAS CON… Unas heroínas fuertes y seguras de sí mismas, y con grandes dosis de aventuras, no puedes perderte esta novedad😏! Es más, si eres una apasionada de las novelas en las que no sabes quién es el malo malote y te encantaría descubrir al culpable de unas siniestras muert......more

3.5 stars rounded up Lesbian ladies swinging swords and drinking in seventheenth-century Peru, inspired by real historical figures! Valiant Ladies is a fun take on a historical mystery/thriller novel, though it does read on the more mature end of YA. Kiki and Ana are best friends who have grown up to......more

Goodreads review by Mariah on September 20, 2022

ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley. ]3.5 Melissa Grey really said sapphic latinx sword wielding vigilantes huh. The gall. Follow Kiki and Ana's exciting adventures in the town of Potosí, as they fight to stop crimes (though they comit a few minor ones of their own oops), solve a murder, try t......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on January 22, 2023

4.5 stars. This one was a pleasant surprise! I was honestly expecting to be disappointed by this one, because the premise sounded too good to be true. Surely it was going to be another badly-written, thesaurus-abusing, been-there-done-that teen fantasy with forgettable characters and a cringey roman......more