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The Seventh Veil of Salome
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Real drama is back! 🤭 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets Yellowface meets the Bible in this epic historical fiction.
Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for this ARC in exchange for my honest review. I will be buying!
Sylvia Moreno Garcia takes us back to old Hollywood when “sword and sandal� movies were all the rage. We meet Nancy and Vera. Nancy is a delusional “actress� who is determined to get the main role in the upcoming movie The Seven Veils of Salome but they pluck the young and beautiful Vera Larios from Mexico City to play the titular role. Chaos (and racism!) ensues.
This is a historical fiction within a historical fiction. We learn more about Nancy’s one sided fight with Vera, but are also taken back to the biblical/Roman times to get Salome’s perspective. She is a young girl who’s mother married her uncle (yes, keep up!) and now sits at the precipice of a huge political shift. So many political and religious agendas are proposed to her, and she also is conflicted in seeing the man she loves but is forbidden to see.
So glad I read this on the kindle so I could just highlight words I needed a definition on. The x ray feature was also helpful in keeping names straight in Vera, Nancy, and Salome’s stories
The title references the ancient tale of Salome dancing the “dance of seven veils� (something I had never heard of).
I love how their stories intertwine and the build up was done exceptionally well. Sylvia Moreno Garcia has a way with words and I found some of the characters and vocabulary hard to keep up with at times, but once it clicked, it clicked! 5 stars ⭐️
Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for this ARC in exchange for my honest review. I will be buying!
Sylvia Moreno Garcia takes us back to old Hollywood when “sword and sandal� movies were all the rage. We meet Nancy and Vera. Nancy is a delusional “actress� who is determined to get the main role in the upcoming movie The Seven Veils of Salome but they pluck the young and beautiful Vera Larios from Mexico City to play the titular role. Chaos (and racism!) ensues.
This is a historical fiction within a historical fiction. We learn more about Nancy’s one sided fight with Vera, but are also taken back to the biblical/Roman times to get Salome’s perspective. She is a young girl who’s mother married her uncle (yes, keep up!) and now sits at the precipice of a huge political shift. So many political and religious agendas are proposed to her, and she also is conflicted in seeing the man she loves but is forbidden to see.
So glad I read this on the kindle so I could just highlight words I needed a definition on. The x ray feature was also helpful in keeping names straight in Vera, Nancy, and Salome’s stories
The title references the ancient tale of Salome dancing the “dance of seven veils� (something I had never heard of).
I love how their stories intertwine and the build up was done exceptionally well. Sylvia Moreno Garcia has a way with words and I found some of the characters and vocabulary hard to keep up with at times, but once it clicked, it clicked! 5 stars ⭐️
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