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Covered Paces
A valentine to big city life and the Latina-American experience, Covered Paces follows failed actress Linette Velazco from Los Angeles to Miami and Boston to Panamá, as she swears off love to jumpstart a financial planning career. Along the way, her family's pressure to excel mounts, and a constellation of characters threaten her new resolve and reshape the knotted definitions of "monogamy" and "true love" in modern-day relationships.
182 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 23, 2015
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July 7, 2016
Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite
“Hollywood is a place where they pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul.” This is a Marilyn Monroe quote from Covered Paces that Luigi A. Juarez has used for the very good reason it sums up the theme of his novel so well. Linette Velazco is on the Hollywood “see and be seen” party circuit with a few network TV appearances, and the leading lady role in a failed sitcom, behind her. Movies are her future, or are they? Linette’s desire for “one true love” has been swamped by one-night stands and short, meaningless, affairs. She ditches the career that leads only to casual liaisons, determined on a new start; love, or any kind of intimate relationship is off her agendum. Linette has not taken into account family pressure to excel, or the new people she meets.
Covered Paces by Luigi A. Juarez is an intriguing peep behind the celebrity lifestyles, and the wannabee struggles to survive, of Hollywood. Disenchanted, Linette Velazco changes the course of her life and flies back to Miami, determined to jettison showbiz for a new career. Once again living in the family home, her confidence fades; she gets no respect as a twenty-six year old single girl without a “place” of her own. Will she be swamped by her own nightmares, find the everlasting love of which she once dreamed, or make it alone? Covered Paces is a fascinating debut novel from Luigi A. Juarez with much of the story told in dialogue.
“Hollywood is a place where they pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul.” This is a Marilyn Monroe quote from Covered Paces that Luigi A. Juarez has used for the very good reason it sums up the theme of his novel so well. Linette Velazco is on the Hollywood “see and be seen” party circuit with a few network TV appearances, and the leading lady role in a failed sitcom, behind her. Movies are her future, or are they? Linette’s desire for “one true love” has been swamped by one-night stands and short, meaningless, affairs. She ditches the career that leads only to casual liaisons, determined on a new start; love, or any kind of intimate relationship is off her agendum. Linette has not taken into account family pressure to excel, or the new people she meets.
Covered Paces by Luigi A. Juarez is an intriguing peep behind the celebrity lifestyles, and the wannabee struggles to survive, of Hollywood. Disenchanted, Linette Velazco changes the course of her life and flies back to Miami, determined to jettison showbiz for a new career. Once again living in the family home, her confidence fades; she gets no respect as a twenty-six year old single girl without a “place” of her own. Will she be swamped by her own nightmares, find the everlasting love of which she once dreamed, or make it alone? Covered Paces is a fascinating debut novel from Luigi A. Juarez with much of the story told in dialogue.
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