BKMT READING GUIDES

Living the Vida Lola: A Lola Cruz Mystery (Lola Cruz Mysteries)
by Misa Ramirez

Published: 2008-01-08
Hardcover : 304 pages
1 member reading this now
1 club reading this now
1 member has read this book
Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members

Meet Lola Cruz. After paying her dues as an intern, she's now a full-fledged detective at Camacho and Associates. Her boss is Manny Camacho, a muy caliente former cop with a mysterious ex-wife, a Lara Croft look-alike girlfriend, and a sudden personal interest in Lola. Her first big case? ...

No other editions available.
Add to Club Selections
Add to Possible Club Selections
Add to My Personal Queue
Jump to

Introduction

(

Meet Lola Cruz. After paying her dues as an intern, she's now a full-fledged detective at Camacho and Associates. Her boss is Manny Camacho, a muy caliente former cop with a mysterious ex-wife, a Lara Croft look-alike girlfriend, and a sudden personal interest in Lola. Her first big case? A missing mother who may not want to be found. And to make her already busy life even more complicated, Lola's helping her cousin plan her quincea�era, and battling her family and their old-fashioned views on women and careers. She's also reunited with the gorgeous Jack Callaghan, her high school crush whom she shamelessly tailed years ago and photographed doing the horizontal salsa with some other lucky girl.

Lola takes it all in stride, but when the subject of her search ends up dead, she realizes she has a lot more to worry about. Soon she finds herself wrapped up in the possibly shady practices of a tattoo parlor, local politics, and someone with serious---maybe deadly---road rage. To top it all off, her treasured postcoital pictures of Jack are missing! Still, Lola is well-equipped to handle these challenges. She's a black-belt in kung fu, and her body isn?t her only weapon. She's got smarts, sass, and more tenacity than her Mexican mafioso-wannabe grandfather. A few of her famous margaritas don?t hurt, either.

Debut author Misa Ramirez, a blond-haired, green-eyed gal with a passion for the Latino culture and authentic Mexican food, has penned a delicious mix of mystery, romance, and all-out fun. Filled with sizzling�scenes and side-splitting humor, Living the Vida Lola�is a thrilling ride that will have you up all night.

(20090201)

Editorial Review

No editorial review at this time.

Excerpt

No Excerpt Currently Available

Discussion Questions

Suggested by Members

First generation immigrants often feel caught ‘in between’ two cultural groups: their family’s culture and American society. Lola straddles these two cultures in several ways. Discuss the obvious ways she consciously creates an identity in each culture,
Cultural expectations often interfere with how a person lives their life. How does Lola uphold the expectations her family holds for her, and how does she break free of these expectations? Which of these are cultural, verses gender expectations?
Many people feel that someone from ‘outside’ an ethnic group cannot effectively write a person from that ethnic or cultural group. How authentic do you find Lola to be?
by misaramirez (see profile) 07/15/09

Notes From the Author to the Bookclub

No notes at this time.

Book Club Recommendations

A Mexican Themed Book Club
by misaramirez (see profile) 07/15/09
Serve salsa, guacamole, margaritas, and, of course, Lola's Spanish Rice [available at Misa's web site: http://misaramirez.com]!

Member Reviews

Overall rating:
 
 
  "Live the Lola Way"by misa r. (see profile) 07/15/09

As the author of Living the Vida Lola, I can't be unbiased. I'll just say this: Living the Vida Lola means living with sass, smarts, and sex appeal. What's not to like about that?

Vis

... (read more)

Rate this book
MEMBER LOGIN
Remember me
BECOME A MEMBER it's free

Book Club HQ to over 88,000+ book clubs and ready to welcome yours.

SEARCH OUR READING GUIDES Search
Search


FEATURED EVENTS
PAST AUTHOR CHATS
JOIN OUR MAILING LIST

Get free weekly updates on top club picks, book giveaways, author events and more
Please wait...