Lourdes Duque Baron has created two amazing books, with raving reviews from Amazon, TopLink Publishing, Good Reads and Pacific Book Review.  “I Called Myself Cassandra” and ” Scripted in Heaven”  are promising books that can withstand the test of time.

 

I  Called Myself Cassandra

Digital Journal Review:

Sweeping, raw, and honest, I Called Myself Cassandra spans decades and continents. It’s a life story that captures the beauty and pain of love and relationships. Lourdes had recently returned home to the Philippines after studying abroad in the United States. Attending school, she meets a young man named Robin. Though she senses their relationship may grow into something special, she has little idea that this single connection will shape her life and her future. Robin is destined to become her husband, but their journey before and after marriage will not be an easy one.

Told from Lourdes’ perspective, readers will empathize with her love for Robin and her hopes for the future. She makes readers feel her elation as their lives progress as well as her extreme anger and anguish when infidelity threatens to take away her husband and tear apart their family. I found this kind of cheating and selfishness to be uncomfortable to read, but Baron understands sharing this type of story requires direct honesty and she refuses to pull back.

Digital Journal provided a positive review for ” I Called Myself Cassandra” and called the book honest and unique in style when developing characters. It is a coming of age romance that morphs into love and marriage exploration in a woman’s life.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3591654#ixzz5Dg91qKSu

Pacific Book Review:

Lourdes’ relationship with her mentally disabled son is a bright point in the book, although only touched on briefly. She does a grand effort capturing the entire emotional journey of a single relationship; reminding us even though a family may look perfect on the outside, the story behind closed doors may be far from perfect. She highlighted her emotional roller coaster of choosing to love a single person for her entire life and the consequences when that person betrayed her. Finally, she masterfully describes what it is like for a woman to explore her own sexuality at a time when everything else seems to be falling apart.

Read: http://www.pacificbookreview.com/i-called-myself-cassandra/

Broadway World

As an accomplished author of two books, Baron is refreshingly candid about the realities and dark past of her life. In the book, Baron’s alter ego, Cassandra, details the several torrid affairs she sought out with younger men. The book chronicles a dark chapter of Baron’s life when she was estranged from her husband, who was cheating on her. The stories in the book are true from her life; she lived every page of the book. Baron explains, “It’s a memory of my reality.”

Read: https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwbooks/article/Lourdes-Duque-Baron-to-Release-I-Called-Myself-Cassandra-20140611