🍁🍂R/Romancebooks September Book Club OPEN - Asiri and the Amaru by Natalia Hernández🍂 🍁

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{Asiri and The Amaru by Natalia Hernandez} Fantasy, MF, $6.99 on Amazon, on KU, not on Kobo, Libby, Hoopla or Everand, some less expensive hardcopies available used.

Storygraph Blurb: Asiri has a gift - she has the ability to speak to animals. However, when she begins to feel that her talents are being abused in her home, she escapes to a delightful coastal village where she plans to hide her gift and finally live a “normal” life. This proves difficult as her path keeps crossing with Dario, the village’s charming and handsome animal healer - and the person most likely to guess her secret. Through a twist of fate, Asiri and Dario stumble across an injured Amaru, a creature who had, up until then, been thought only to be myth. Now, Asiri has a mission. Convince Dario to help the creature. Protect it from the superstitious town people. Keep her gift a secret. And absolutely, most definitely, NOT fall in love while doing so.

From the author’s bio: Natalia Hernandez is an Indigenous, Latinx, and queer book nerd who was lucky enough to have grown up all over the world. As a Third Culture Kid she has lived in Turkey, Romania, Poland, Guatemala, England, and now resides in Los Angeles with her cheagle Mija. As an avid reader and passionate writer, she wants to create queer fantasy novels that feature strong women of color in sweeping Latin American-inspired settings.

Book Club chat takes place on the Discord server - head on over. September's Book Club channel is now open, and there’s lots of other things going on!

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A poster with a background of various orange and brown leaves with two light brown horizontal rectangles across the top and bottom. Inside the top one are the words "September Book Club Pick". Inside the bottom one are the words "Asiri and the Amaru - Natalia Hernández." In the center is a light brown vertical rectangle with the cover art of the book inside.

The cover art of Asiri and the Amaru is a brightly coloured folk art style illustration. The scene depicts a green landscape with purple and grey mountains at the horizon and a blue sky with some light blue clouds. The foreground has some spike-y wide leaved plants (one of which has a white mouse or rat resting on it), and orange-red dirt. There are also some light green trees. The title of the book is in the middle of the page and the series title "Pisqu Sweet and Sour Book One" is across the top with the author's name across the bottom. On either side of the book title are two people. On the left is a young woman, dressed in traditional Peruvian costume including a black circle skirt with bright floral embroidery and a pink hem. She wears a blue long sleeved blouse and a brightly coloured striped shawl and sandals. She is reaching up with her right hand to let a bright green hummingbird land on her fingers. She has dark brown skin and black hair plaited with ribbons. On the right is a slightly taller man with similarly dark brown skin and medium length slightly curling black hair. He is also wearing traditional costume with a butter yellow vnecked shirt with embroidery around the neck line, simple black trousers and sandals. He is holding a large white and brown guinea pig in his left arm. By his feet is an orange and brown snake. Above their heads flies the Amaru, a mythical creature with a blue llama head, brightly striped condor wings and a snake body with a fish tail.

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Asiri and the Amaru by Natalia Hernandez
Rating: 4.25⭐️ out of 5⭐️
Steam: 3 out of 5 - Open door
Topics: fantasy, latinx mc, sweet/gentle hero, magic, gifted/super-heroine

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[u/A_Seductive_Cactus]

I really liked this - read it last year. Excited to see what others think about it!