Review: Beautiful!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
Light and Shadows is a beautiful story of romance, hope, charity and love.We are expertly guided through this beautiful story with suspense as we wonder if Eloisa will recover from the death of her fiancé and open her heart to Marcos. At the same time we experience the internal conflict of Teresa and her struggle of whether to open her heart to Joaquin.Teresa is a beautiful character that you instantly fall in love with. She is kindhearted (donating her time at the Women’s Building), delicate and loving. She struggles with allowing herself to open up to men. When Joaquin enters her life she tries hard to keep him at arms-length but finds it hard as she learns more about him. The struggle is even greater when she is cast as a prostitute that is murdered. The role means so much to her as an opportunity to help prostitutes and battered women but it weighs so heavily on her emotionally.Teresa and Eloisa are best friends, thoroughly engaged and supportive of one another’s lives. Marcos is a family friend of Teresa that she feels would be perfect for her friend Eloisa. When Eloisa’s fiancé tragically dies you see fate shift, trying to bring Eloisa and Marcos together.Author Estela Vazquez Perez has an amazing gift of bringing the characters and story to life. The whole time you are reading this book you feel fully immersed in the story and the lives of the characters. It is intense and thrilling. The lives of these four characters are threaded exquisitely together as they take this journey of love and life.I highly recommend it!