Book Review of
The Cuban Heiress

Lynn's Review

The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton is a historical fiction book published in 2023.

I love Chanel Cleeton’s Perez Family books, so I knew I wanted to read her other books about Cuba. 

I love Chanel Cleeton’s writing. Her descriptions make you feel like you are there with the characters in the book. 

The Cuban Heiress is set in 1934 on the Morroa Castle, a luxury ship making a round-trip voyage to Cuba and back. 

It follows Catherine, who is pretending to be a New York heiress, and Elena, who everyone thinks is dead, but is very much alive. 

Throughout the book, you learn how their lives and the lives of those around them are intertwined in ways that will surprise you. 

I loved the writing, the luxury ship setting, and the mystery of this book. It drew me in, and I could not put it down. 

However, by the end of the book, I struggled to like the main characters because it was an end-justifies-the-means type of book.

The characters were involved in terrible things, and they justified it by the fact that horrible things had been done to them. 

Terrible things are terrible. Crimes are awful, but that doesn’t mean you get revenge. 

This book also lacked the Cuban history that I loved about the Perez family series. There was some Cuban history, but most of the book took place on the luxury ship, so you learned more about 1934 in general than you did about Cuba in 1934. 

If you have read this book, I would love to hear about it.