Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera | Book Review

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“Adventurous, bravery, and Mexican folktales.”

My brief summary of the book

Cece lives in Terra del sol or the land of the sun. She needs to save her big sister Juana from  El Somberon, a dark criatura. She needs to become a bruja or witch in order to save her sister. Along the way, she becomes friends with the criaturas that she captured. Will she succeed?

My thoughts

This book was hard to put down. I wanted to know what would happen next. Cece is very sweet and brave and I want to be her best friend. 

I like that it’s written with Mexican folktales that were told. It is very emotional too. I really like the setting I could picture myself in the Mexican desert. 🌵 🏜

I learned a lot of Spanish words (glossary at the end to help) and about Mexican folktales.

My rating

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About the author

“Kaela Rivera was raised to believe in will-o’-the-wisps and el chupacabra, but even ghost stories couldn’t stop her from reading in the isolated treetops, caves, and creeks of Tennessee’s Appalachian forests.

She still believes in the folktales of her Mexican-American and British parents, but now she writes about them from the adventure-filled mountains of the Wild West. When she’s not crafting stories, she’s using her English degree from BYU-I as an editor for a marketing company (or secretly doodling her characters in the margins of her notebook).” – Amazon.