The Spanish House - Cherry Radford

Genre: Fiction | Romance

Release Date: 21st July 2021

Publisher: Aria & Aries

CW: Racism, Death.

Juliana makes her living as a spanish TV extra, although her only connection to her heritage is some bad spanish lessons and cloudy memories of her Mother from years ago.

So when her slighly eccentric uncle Arturo asks her to come and look after his uninhabited Andalusian home for three months, she jumps at the chance to go and learn more about where she came from. But when he reveals the house will be hers if she just completes ten little and slightly strange tasks, she's got the opportunity to not only learn the truth about her roots, but maybe finally put down some of her own.

From family rivalries to problematically handsome neighbours, Julianas journey wasn't just ticking boxes on some list - it was a deep dive into her family history and the lies that have been hovering around her entire life. This was a very beautiful story about finding all the little things that make us who we are and form our identities.

The setting was cosy and immersive, and the author has Spanish heritage herself - you can definitely feel her love for the culture oozing from her writing. This would be the ideal book to read when you're desperate to escape somewhere sunny, very much a beach read.

However, I couldn't really connect to Juliana as I found her narration disjointed and somewhat erratic and felt that a lot of plot was just told to us rather than getting to see it, as though something was happening off to the side that the reader wasn't allowed to see.

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to Cherry Radford, Aria & Aries and Netgalley for this ARC in return for an honest review.

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