Publication date: May 14th 2019
Pages: 336
Rosa is a teen from a Cuban-American family and lives together with her mom and her abuela. The women in her family believe they are cursed by the sea. This especially counts when it comes to love, as it seems all their love interests are doomed. This all because of something tragic that happened in the past: Rosa's er grandparents migrated from Cuba when her mother was just an infant, a terrible storm hit their boat, and the only ones that survived where Rosa's mom and grandmother . Eighteen years later, Rosa's father left on his boat for a routine day of work and never returned.
Rosa feels more caught than cursed. Caught between cultures and choices. Between her abuela, a beloved healer and pillar of their community, and her mother, an artist who crashes in and out of her life like a hurricane. Between Port Coral, the quirky South Florida town they call home, and Cuba, the island her abuela refuses to talk about.
As her college decision looms, Rosa collides - literally - with Alex Aquino, the mysterious boy with tattoos of the ocean whose family owns the marina. With her heart, her family, and her future on the line, can Rosa break a curse and find her place beyond the horizon?
Don't Date Rosa Santos is a cute and somewhat mystical read with a Latin touch. The story starts nice, and stays that way untill halfway of the book. Then the story at multiple point get losts in some supernatural mystic things that start to happen, which for any reader who are not into that are somewhat difficult to follow, which has a domino effect on the rest of the book. The characters where okay, a bit flat and one dimensional, just average. What really would have helped is if Rosa went to Cuba earlier and had some fun time there which really would have give the story a boost, and which I somewhat expected when I saw the lovely book cover. She does go to Cuba though in the end, which is by far the best part of the book
Overall the idea for the story is nice,with some sweet moments, and a nice end.
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