{"id":4084,"date":"2019-03-09T13:35:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2019-03-09T13:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:35:53","slug":"review-american-dreamer-adriana-herrera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/09\/review-american-dreamer-adriana-herrera\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: American Dreamer &#8211; Adriana Herrera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bookreview\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/42983586.jpg?w=1280\" alt=\"Review: American Dreamer &#8211; Adriana Herrera\" title=\"Review: American Dreamer &#8211; Adriana Herrera\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignright\"><strong>American Dreamer<\/strong><br>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/authors\/adriana-herrera\/\">Adriana Herrera<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/series\/dreamers\/\">Dreamers #1<\/a> <br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/publishers\/carina-press\/\">Carina Press<\/a> <br><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> March 4, 2019 <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/romance\/\">Romance<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 352 <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/sources\/netgalley\/\">NetGalley<\/a> <br><br><p>I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>My rating: <span class=\"ubb-buy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><\/span><br><br><br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>No one ever said big dreams come easy<\/p>\n<p>For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works? He\u2019ll be a big fish in a little pond. If it doesn\u2019t? He\u2019ll have to give up the hustle and return to the day job he hates. He\u2019s got six months to make it happen\u2014the last thing he needs is a distraction.<\/p>\n<p>Jude Fuller is proud of the life he\u2019s built on the banks of Cayuga Lake. He has a job he loves and good friends. It\u2019s safe. It\u2019s quiet. And it\u2019s damn lonely. Until he tries Ithaca\u2019s most-talked-about new lunch spot and works up the courage to flirt with the handsome owner. Soon he can\u2019t get enough\u2014of Nesto\u2019s food <em>or<\/em> of Nesto. For the first time in his life, Jude can finally taste the kind of happiness that\u2019s always been just out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>An opportunity too good to pass up could mean a way to stay together and an incredible future for them both\u2026if Nesto can remember happiness isn\u2019t always measured by business success. And if Jude can overcome his past and trust his man will never let him down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><center><span class=\"ubb-buy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07KN6G9CM\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amazon.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Amazon\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/american-dreamer-adriana-herrera\/1129908341?ean=9781488051234\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bn.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Barnes & Noble\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/american-dreamer-5\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kobo.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Kobo\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781982644239\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/indiebound.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Indiebound\"><\/a><\/span><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42983586-american-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/widget_logo.gif?w=1280\" alt=\"Goodreads\"><\/a><br><\/center><center><p class=\"ubb-buy\"><div class=\"ubb-icon-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/4stars\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0003_4-stars.png?fit=80%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"4 stars icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/contemporary\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0007_contemporary.png?fit=140%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"contemporary icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/diverse\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/categories_0000s_0013_diverse.png?fit=80%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/m-m\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"102\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/categories_0000s_0005_m_m.png?fit=80%2C102&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"categories_m_m\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/romance\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"82\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0017_romance.png?fit=82%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"romance icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/yummy-food\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"114\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/categories_0000s_0009_yummy-food.png?fit=114%2C101&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"yummy food\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/center><br>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-03-09T21:35:16+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\r\\n\\r\\nContent warnings: \\r\\n\\r\\nOK, first off - 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This is a big fucking deal for me. I\u2019m moving out of New York City, my home since I was six years old, to try and get a food truck business going upstate.\u201d<br \/>\nI reached over for another container and huffed in exasperation. \u201cIf I had a beard and a man bun I\u2019d be a cancelled show on Food Network.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nesto&#8217;s passion for the Afro-Caribbean flavors of his food truck, OuNYe, may be boundless, but his dream is running out. \u00a0Faced with stiff competition in New York City, he agrees to give himself six months in Ithaca, at his mother&#8217;s urging, before giving up his dream. \u00a0Even in the upstate college town, though, he knows he&#8217;ll need to work hard to make his dream a reality, and the last thing he has time for is any distractions &#8211; even if it&#8217;s a cute librarian who drops cheesy pickup lines in Spanish. \u00a0Jude has his own dreams &#8211; a bookmobile to reach youth in rural areas &#8211; and, still smarting from previous rejections, romantic and otherwise, doesn&#8217;t want to risk heartbreak again. \u00a0But when they keep running into each other around town, maybe they could just be friends? (HAHA, no, you know where this goes!) \u00a0The pressures against OuNYe are more than just financial, however, and will the success that would keep him in Ithaca with Jude also be what drives them apart?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere it is. I\u2019m going to make it my mission to keep you smiling, neighbor.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI thought your mission was getting your business to be a success.\u201d<br \/>\nHe looked serious for a moment, then whispered, \u201cI told you, I adapt.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I loved both main characters, though for different reasons. \u00a0Nesto is incredibly driven, often to the detriment of his relationships with others, including Jude. \u00a0A lot of his hesitancy towards their relationship is that he thinks Jude will be a distraction towards him realizing his dreams. \u00a0Jude, due to his experience being basically shunned after coming out to his extremely conservatively religious family and then being dumped by the guy he came out to them for, doesn&#8217;t believe he&#8217;s enough for anyone to want to stick around for. \u00a0When he realizes his attraction to Nesto, he does his best to put the breaks on the possible relationship immediately, scared of having his heart broken again. \u00a0Irregardless of how either man feels about a relationship, they can&#8217;t resist the need to see each other again, and they&#8217;re by turns sweet, sarcastic, and downright salty with each other. \u00a0I loved the growth of their relationship, how hard they fought it and tried to convince themselves there was no relationship, even if their actions said otherwise. \u00a0When one of them screws up, though, they screw up hard, but it&#8217;s followed by the absolute perfect example of groveling.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEn serio, m\u2019ijo, don\u2019t get so focused on the truck you forget to live your life. You can have some balance.\u201d She bumped my shoulder as I tried to grab something from the shelf behind her.<br \/>\n\u201cYou forget sometimes, pap\u00ed. You\u2019re such a good man, so serious and hardworking, but you also need some love. Someone to carry the burdens with you. Don\u2019t be like me, sweetheart.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also loved the secondary characters! \u00a0Nesto&#8217;s mom is so amazingly supportive, and she and Nesto&#8217;s friends from NYC really made the book for me. \u00a0So often it feels like the MC&#8217;s best friends are just in there as sequel bait, but they were an important part of the story. \u00a0Jude&#8217;s extremely conservative religious family was a huge contrast, both in terms of support and as well-fleshed out characters. \u00a0There just wasn&#8217;t much to them other than their bigotry. \u00a0Misty, the white lady who&#8217;s sole purpose in life seemed to be being racist, was also a bit of a caricature but more believable. \u00a0She&#8217;s the main villain of the story, and the different ways Nesto and Jude handled her were an insightful view into the differences between how white people and people of color handle people abusing their power. \u00a0As for cons, my main issue was with the pacing. \u00a0While the beginning and ending chugged along well, the middle felt uneven, with a few weeks skipped with seemingly no change to their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I loved this book, and I&#8217;m very much looking forward to <em>American Dreamer<\/em>, the second book in the series, which will feature one of Nesto&#8217;s friends. \u00a0Highly recommended!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warnings: OK, first off &#8211; 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