One Hot Summer

by Carolina Garcia Aguilera

A sizzling summer of sexy fun in Miami Beach, where anything can happen . . . and does. Margarita Maria Santos Silva is a woman adamant about making her own decisions in a family that seems to have the future, as well as the rules, neatly laid out for her. After the birth of her son, Margarita is at the end of taking a year off from her stressful legal career and trying to decide whether she should go back to work or stay home and raise her son—the latter being the choice both her overachieving husband, Ariel, and old-fashioned family desperately want her to make. But when her old law school boyfriend-the handsome Luther Simmonds—shows; up out of nowhere, all hell breaks loose . . . Now she has more than one critical decision to makeand only one hot summer to do it in.

Genres: Fiction

276 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

Reviews

[Jose · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was alright... if you like tele-novelas, this definitely has that quality.
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[Brooke Phillips · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an okay book but not much going on until pretty much the last 20 pages.

[Natalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I first picked up this book a year ago I read almost half of it and got bored so I put it down. Now a year later I'm thinking that it probably wasn't the time for me to read it. For some reason yesterday I thought of it and felt a crazy inclination to finish it. I have to say that I thought what Margarita did was disgusting. Not only did she cheat on her husband, but she cheated without using any protection. Honestly a pregnancy was the least of what could've happened to her. Her betrayal, and her lack of protection, plus her having sex with both men sometimes in the same day showed her complete lack of respect, and consideration for her husband. Still, I believe that her husband's conspiring with her mother and farmacist to get her pregnant so that she wouldn't work to fit his picture of what their world should be like was equally disgusting. So, in my Opinion they're even. I know if it had been me though, I would've confessed to my betrayal in my anger just to get him back for what he did to me, instead of doing what she ended up doing. But this is why I am younger and less mature than she was, and perhaps too, less latin and catholic, as I believe in divorce whole heartedly if you're not in love. I don't think that parents not being together makes a difference in whether the parents are decent ones if they are decent ones. This would've been the best time for a divorce because Martin is at the perfect age where he'll never remember his parents together so won't know any difference. After all this though, due to Ariel and Margarita's immense capacity for betrayal, , I believe that they deserve each other and belong together. Why send them out in to the world to destroy other people? This is such Gerry springer type crap! hahahaha

[Sherry · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not a great read. I was doing well with it until the main character actually cheated on her husband, discovered she was pregnant and decided to stay with her husband. Puh-leeze. If I wanted a trash about cheating spouses, I'd watch Days of Our Lives.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked the book, especially the details of Miami and the Cuban culture. I didn't think Margarita made a good choice sticking with her husband who had conspired with her mother, but then when I read what her demands were of her husband....good for her!!!

[Cindy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not care for this book. I'm Hispanic, and completely understand having pride in your heritage/culture. But if I had wanted a history lesson, I would've read a history book. I read to get away from it all, go into a fantasy world. I didn't even finish reading it; too boring. Sorry.

[Mary Crawford · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun and easy light reading.

[Katrina · Rating 3 out of 5]

i didnt really liked this one...it was boring....

[Susan Laine]

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[Lisa Hodges · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. Hoping to see the Lifetime movie with Vanessa Marcil.

[Susi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. Read it about 2 years ago. Rereading it again soon.

[Melissa Martinez · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book took too long to get anywhere so it's been pushed aside for now.

[Mellodie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book. I am a fan of the mystery series also written by this author.