The Last Train to Key West (Paperback)(Large Print)

from etxgardener

On Labor Day in 1935 a deadly Category 5 hurricane hit the Florida keys. However, none of the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad is aware of the danger to come. The story concerns three women who find themselves in Islamorada that weekend: • Mirta, a beautiful Cuban woman who...

from Romonko

In some ways I enjoyed this book very much. I loved the three women characters and their different stories as to how they ended up on a tiny island in the Florida Keys on the Labour Day weekend of 1935. Helen lives on Key west with a jealous and abusive husband. She's nine months pregnant and dec...

from bogopea

Disappointing. Was expecting it to be about 3 women who became empowered as a group while hunkeriing down during a hurricane in Key West. Instead, it is about 3 women who meet early on in the novel (1930's) and then meet again after the storm. In between, each of them deals with a difficult relat...

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I think Chanel Cleeton might be one of my favorite historical fiction authors. As with her previous books, I felt swept away to a new place and time - in this case, to 1930s Key West. The three women whose stories form this novel are all different, yet each is compelling and vivid. And, since I k...

from Carolesrandomlife

What a great book! I am so glad that I finally got around to tackling this book. I had a feeling that I would like this book and boy was I right! It was easy to lose myself in the story and I felt myself caught up in the characters' lives more and more as I worked my way through the book. I am so...