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The Grand Paloma Resort
The Grand Paloma Resort: A Novel | Cleyvis Natera
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The Grand Paloma Resort is a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where guests enjoy incredible luxury, and the staff is always eager to pleasethat is, until they are pushed to the brink. Laura is a manager at the Grand Paloma Resort, a Dominican woman who has risen this far through sheer hard work. Her idea to pair platinum guests with a resort employee to attend to their every need has been wildly successful. Shes mere weeks away from a promotion that will blaze a path off the resort, to a life of opportunity. If only her younger sister, Elenawho shes looked after since the death of their mother could get with the program. Elena has tried her best to live up to her sisters expectations. To escape the drudgery of waiting on rich tourists, shes become increasingly dependent on pills and partying. As a babysitter at the resort, shes at the mercy of guests who travel to indulge their worst impulses and need someone else to watch their kids while they do so. Now, after an accident, a child in her charge is believed dead, and Elena knows she'll be held responsible. At a local beachfront watering hole, Elena runs into the childs father. He offers her an obscene amount of money to give him private time with two young local girls. Elena pockets the cash to fund her escape and prays shes gotten the girls out of harms way. Set over the course of seven days, The Grand Paloma Resort offers an unforgettable story of class, family, and community, building to an intense climax in which the true costs of luxury are laid bare, forcing Laura and Elena to reckon with long-held secrets and true acts of love.
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Amor4Libros
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Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️ #arc Out Today

The premise of this book looked promising, but the story is full of stereotypes about Dominicans and the tourism industry. I am not saying these isolated incidents do not happen at the resorts, but the book just focused on the rich tourists getting to do whatever they want and getting away with it, and the resort workers just catering to their whims and cleaning up their messes.

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Amor4Libros I had really high expectations for this one because I loved Neruda in the Park, but I feel Natera focused heavily on everything that's bad at a time when DR's tourism industry is already plagued with negative headlines. 1mo
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Amor4Libros
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Very happy that I was approved for this #arc earlier this week! Plan to read it before I (hopefully) go see the author speak at a writing festival here in Santo Domingo next month 😊