The Last Train to Key West -

Chanel Cleeton

Berkley

2020

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780451490889

Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape.

The Cuban Revolution of 1933 left Mirta Perez’s family in a precarious position. After an arranged wedding in Havana, Mirta arrives in the Keys on her honeymoon. While she can’t deny the growing attraction to the stranger she’s married, her new husband’s illicit business interests may threaten not only her relationship, but her life.

Elizabeth Preston’s trip from New York to Key West is a chance to save her once-wealthy family from their troubles as a result of the Wall Street crash. Her quest takes her to the camps occupied by veterans of the Great War and pairs her with an unlikely ally on a treacherous hunt of his own.

Over the course of the holiday weekend, the women’s paths cross unexpectedly, and the danger swirling around them is matched only by the terrifying force of the deadly storm threatening the Keys.

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2 (Razoável)

Novelesco

Livro que tinha tudo para ser atraente com uma boa história de fundo, o Grande Furacão do dia do Trabalhador de 1935, uma das maiores e mais mortíferas tempestades na história dos Estados Unidos, se perdeu em personagens rasos e chatos.
Mas quando chega na parte do furacão, ganha um pouco de energia e interesse.
Mesmo assim, foi uma péssima leitura.