Author: Cecilia Guiter
- Fiction
- Ediciones Temas de Hoy
- ISBN: 9788499982311
- Release Date: 01-22-2013
-Reviewed by: Jorge Romero
“Tuya” is about Dakota Udaz, an office workaholic who has lost the meaning of life. She is 37, divorced, and lately has had many erotic dreams. As you may guess, her sexual life has suffered a great deal to the point of being nonexistent. She confides her dreams with her three best friends who are determined to get her sexual life back on track by helping her find a lover. They have decided to use online dating sites to help Dakota find a partner. She finds Eliseo. Eliseo is very attractive and at the beginning, a very attentive man. He claims to be a lawyer. He is a man who may be a sex addict, and will satisfy Dakota’s dreams and fantasies. That is until he starts asking her to have threesomes, sex with other couples and, to have sex with some of his “clients” for money. This is where Dakota’s world starts collapsing. Fortunately, Dakota’s friends and mother are there to support her and help her move on.
“Tuya” didn’t turn out to be the book I thought it would be. I thought it was a better and clever story than I was expecting. According to many reviews, readers gave it a low score because the book was portrayed as an “erotic” story and it was not what they expected. Even though it does have some very erotic scenes, the book covers not only sex, but very human and important values such as true friendship.
I do have to say that the storyline moves pretty slow at the beginning. The dialogue keeps the reader interested and the storyline picks up its pace toward the middle of the book. At times, Cecilia Guiter includes a dialogue line that that doesn’t quiet fit with the rest of the storyline. Some readers who also read “Tuya” commented of this small issue in their online review.
The author has taken the erotic common theme of finding a partner, having great sex, etc. to a whole new level. I think that she did a good job at having a variety of plotiness and not making very predictable. With the exception of a couple of dialogue lines I thought did not go blend well with the story, Cecilia did a nice job in bringing the story together in a well written and different style. I do think that some readers may be disappointed if they thought this would be a very juicy erotic story all along. I personally enjoyed the climax of the book and the originality and courage of the author to end it the way she did.
One similar book that comes to mind is “La Pasión Turca” de Antonio Gala in which the author uses a similar dialogue tone and writing style as Cecilia Guiter. There are some similarities such as long periods of dialogue, incorporation of daily tasks and just daily life, and very erotic scenes which the author described in much detail. Overall, the book was a good read. I can’t compare it to other books from Cecilia because this is her first one, but there are plenty of other similar books we can compared them to.
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