Callame con Un Beso - Blue Jeans

TITLE: Cállame con Un Beso

SERIES: Canciones Para Paula #3

AUTHOR: Blue Jeans

GENRE: YA, Spanish, contemporary, realistic fiction, spainish

PAGES: 614

PUBLISHER: Everest

FORMAT: Paperback

TIME (to read it): 4 days

LANGUAGE: Spanish

RATING: 5/5

“Cállame con un Beso” (CCUB) is the final book in the “Canciones para Paula” series. This is a Spanish series written by a Spanish author. This series follows the “sugus”, a group of friends in Madrid, their adventures and misadventures as they grow up.    

            Several months after the previous book, Paula has been studying in London. And she’s been struggling there, missing everything, but specially her boyfriend, Alex. Alex also misses Paula even founding difficult to continue with his work as a writer.  In the meanwhile, Miriam has fallen into a dark place; therefore Mario and Diana started to worry about her. At the same time, they fight for their relationship.

However, how did Paula and Alex got together again, and what had happened with Cris.

            CCUB was a gripping and awesome book. In addition to that it was in my personal opinion an outstanding ending to a really good Spanish series. The first thing I would want to point out is the pace of the series, in general. It isn’t too fast, but it definitely isn’t slow. The other thing, also common to the whole series, is the realism of it. In my opinion this is the main appeal of this series, as well as, the principal thing on what account the story look as easy to follow as it is. I don’t mean that the books don’t have dramatic turns; nonetheless, most of them don’t appear fictive. Although, the dramatic turn of events regarding Miriam got a bit all over the place in this last book. These events got balanced by slipping in the flash backs, which personally I think made the book.

Another thing I like about these books is the fact that even if Paula is the main character, her friends’ storylines are quite important. I mainly like this because I don’t really like Paula as a character. I find her the typical annoying teenager who has every boy after her. I can’t relate to this kind of characters, especially when they are as irritating as Paula.

I like the fact that there are some positive body image messages hidden on the series, especially with Diana and Pandora. Nevertheless, I think the author is unable to make them seem believable.

I previously said I liked the flashbacks, nevertheless, I think we lost too much things, and just few were told. Therefore my connection with some characters got a bit damaged.

In conclusion this book, as well as the series, was a fantastic book. I know few Spanish series as this one, furthermore I hope for them to be translated into some other languages, so they can be enjoyed all over the world.