I love the premise of this series - a group of sisters-by-adoption have an all-women mariachi band. It’s great to see a different family dynamic and musical set-up! I skipped the first book and I definitely recommend not doing that, I definitely felt like I was missing some pieces.

This book just didn’t get all the way there for me. I think the Spanish was integrated in a way that felt clunky and unnatural to me - one of my pet peeves is someone saying something in the non-English language and then repeating themselves in English, which never feels like something people actually do, and this book falls prey to that. And while I really liked Cat and Patricio as separate characters, I didn’t always buy their chemistry. It’s meant to be kind of a forbidden romance, but I think Cat’s reasons are flimsy, and Patricio is all in on her from day one (which I do love). This would have been 4 stars for me, but the ending is a ridiculous miscommunication, and that knocked it down to three stars for me. 

Thank you Montlake and NetGalley for the ARC!