When We Left Cuba

Half spy novel and half romance and not really enough of either for me. The spy narrative was interesting, until it kind of just petered out in a twist (a twist that, while it made sense, would have been pretty much impossible for the reader to see coming, even in retrospect, I think, which seems a little unfair). As far as the romance, the entire story is told from Beatriz's perspective in first-person, so I didn't think there was much depth to the love interest and no real idea of what he saw in her, which made it hard to connect to the love story to me. And also I just really don't like infidelity in my romances, and sleeping with an engaged man when you know he's engaged definitely counts for me. It might be in character but there are so many other reasons these characters couldn't be together besides that, ugh. For such a dynamic, interesting character as Beatriz was in [b:Next Year in Havana 34374628 Next Year in Havana Chanel Cleeton https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1498524468s/34374628.jpg 55459615], she seemed oddly passive here, which is a real disappointment. I hate to rate anything this low, but I just don't feel like this book knew what it wanted to be, and so it ended up not being much of anything.