A review by thatsoneforthebooks
After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez
4.0
✨ Review ✨ After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez
In the main plot, Alex (Alejandra) Torres, a big shot, bad bitch bartender from Chicago, blows into town to save her grandmother's bar. She quite literally bangs into Jeremiah Post, a local professor who's renting a room above the bar. Alex quickly learns that Jeremiah wants to turn the bar into a museum about the local Mexican American population that has for decades lived on Milagro Street, the barrio in their town. There's a super steamy romance here between Alex and Jeremiah that persists throughout.
There's a lot going on in this book, so I'll try to summarize some of the subthreads here:
⭕️ there are ghosts haunting the bar and some light magical realism running throughout
⭕️ there's great history about the traqueros, Mexican American railroad workers that came to settle in the Midwest -- it definitely peaked my historian interest
⭕️ there are great discussions about historic preservation, community, stakeholders and appropriation throughout this book (my historian heart was again cheering for this)
⭕️ there's a mystery at play as Jeremiah and Alex team up to search for hidden documents, uncovering secrets about the town and its founders
I liked this book and many of its threads though it was a bit overwhelming in length and all of the pieces happening within. It's definitely a romance worth reading if you want to juggle interesting subplots throughout!
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In the main plot, Alex (Alejandra) Torres, a big shot, bad bitch bartender from Chicago, blows into town to save her grandmother's bar. She quite literally bangs into Jeremiah Post, a local professor who's renting a room above the bar. Alex quickly learns that Jeremiah wants to turn the bar into a museum about the local Mexican American population that has for decades lived on Milagro Street, the barrio in their town. There's a super steamy romance here between Alex and Jeremiah that persists throughout.
There's a lot going on in this book, so I'll try to summarize some of the subthreads here:
⭕️ there are ghosts haunting the bar and some light magical realism running throughout
⭕️ there's great history about the traqueros, Mexican American railroad workers that came to settle in the Midwest -- it definitely peaked my historian interest
⭕️ there are great discussions about historic preservation, community, stakeholders and appropriation throughout this book (my historian heart was again cheering for this)
⭕️ there's a mystery at play as Jeremiah and Alex team up to search for hidden documents, uncovering secrets about the town and its founders
I liked this book and many of its threads though it was a bit overwhelming in length and all of the pieces happening within. It's definitely a romance worth reading if you want to juggle interesting subplots throughout!
⭐️⭐️⭐️