Cynda 's Reviews > Conquistadora

Good story telling. When I got to less than 100 pages, I wanted to read, yet I did't want the book to end. A young woman determined to escape the narrow expectations of her class and succeeds. She learns how to be brave dark, ruthless. By the end of the story, she has touched her spirit. Only the future will say where that spiritual connection and her conscience take her.
I struggled with should this book be a 3 1/2 or a full 4 ☆¿ I found problematic that the story starts with a promise of sexual frolics and quickly drops the sexual enjoyment. And the hardening and then ruthlessness and then changed woman emerges and takes over the story. Maybe--and this is why I settled on 4☆--the conquistadora changes from being a girl where things, including sexual things, are done to her to becoming a woman of spiritual and emotional strength.