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Valiant Ladies

Audiobook
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Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in Valiant Ladies, Melissa Grey's YA historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth-century Latinx teenagers known as the Valiant Ladies of Potosí.
By day, Eustaquia "Kiki" de Sonza and Ana Lezama de Urinza are proper seventeenth-century young ladies. But when night falls, they trade in their silks and lace for swords and muskets, venturing out into the vibrant, bustling, crime ridden streets of Potosí, in the Spanish Empire's Viceroyalty of Peru.
They pass their time fighting, gambling, and falling desperately in love with each other.
Then, on the night Kiki's engagement to the viceroy's son is announced, her older brother—heir to her family's fortune—is murdered. The girls immediately embark on a whirlwind investigation that takes them from the lowliest brothels of Potosí to the highest echelons of the Spanish aristocracy.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from May 2, 2022
      Inspired by real-life 17th-century heroines, Grey’s (The Buried) historical murder mystery is an exhilarating adventure. Teenagers Eustaquia “Kiki” de Sonza and Ana Lezama de Urinza are rich young ladies of Potosí by day, vigilantes for justice by night. Despite her heroic proclivities, which remain secret from her father, Kiki must still play her role in society. Though the girls’ feelings for each other continue to grow, even with Kiki’s impending arranged marriage, brothel-born Ana, who was taken in by the de Sonza family, has resigned herself to her station (“We are what we are, and a change of clothes can’t alter that simple fact”). When Kiki’s older brother is found dead in a supposed suicide, the girls’ lives are plunged into chaos as they investigate a mystery more intense than their nightly brawls, whose implications affect the future of the de Sonzas and the safety of Potosí’s underprivileged women. Kiki and Ana are passionate heroines whose alternating perspectives—which embody both fierceness for justice and tender affection for each other—paired with cinematic action sequences conjure a hyper-engaging and gratifying experience. Kiki is Latinx, Ana is half-Dutch and half-Peruvian, and supporting characters are of varied Latinx descent. Ages 13–up. Agent: Catherine Drayton, InkWell Management.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrators Almarie Guerra and Frankie Corzo deliver this dual- perspective audiobook inspired by Latinx teenagers from the seventeenth century. With poise and precision, Guerra voices Kiki. Freshly engaged to the son of a powerful family, she has a bright future ahead. Former street kid Ana, who is adopted into Kiki's family, is portrayed by Corzo with unrestrained, sometimes brazen, emotion. As the two friends skillfully tackle the bustling crime of Peru by night, their burgeoning romantic feelings for each other can barely be contained. After Kiki's brother dies under suspicious circumstances, nothing will stop the pair from uncovering what happened. Guerra and Corzo's careful pacing will keep listeners on edge and swooning in equal measure. A.K.R. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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