My previous blog was about my discontent with people calling my heroines “unlikeable” when I find them admirable. My latest heroine, the bad ass bartender Alejandra “Alex” Torres in After Hours on Milagro Street, has gotten that accusation as much as any of them.
So I was absolutely thrilled by this review from Library Journal, which is my second starred review for the book. After Hours on Milagro Street is about Alex, who comes back to her small Kansas hometown to claim the family bar and finds a professor who mistrusts her intentions standing in her way.
“Likeable protagonists.” It’s absolute magic to my ears!
Booklist review
The Library Journal review wasn’t the only good news I got recently. Booklist also is a fan of After Hours on Milagro Street.
“Not since Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper mixed it up personally and professionally in Ball of Fire has there been such a marvelously mismatched yet inevitably perfect-for-each-other pair of protagonists as Lopez’s sexy mixologist and sweet professor.”
I’ve never seen Ball of Fire, but I can’t imagine Barbara Stanwyck doing to Gary Cooper what Alex does to Jeremiah in the first chapter! Still, I loved this comparison to an out-of-step couple that learns to walk hand in hand!
The full Booklist review won’t be available until June 8. After Hours on Milagro Street will be available in trade paperback, ebook, and audiobook July 26, and you can preorder it at your favorite bookstore or online retail outlet now!