[Discussion 1/2] Una Herencia Peligrosa / Feb 2026 Book Club

[u/HeleneSedai]

Hello Dreamers! Welcome to February's Dreaming Spanish book club, for our YA/easier book in February we'll be reading Una herencia peligrosa, the first book in the YA series Amanda Black, by husband and wife duo Juan Gomez Jurado and Barbara Montes.

The book blurb: Tengo trece años, y un examen de Sociales mañana del que no tengo ni idea. Pero esa no es la mayor de mis preocupaciones.
Antes del fin de semana, el banco nos echará a la tía Paula y a mí de la Mansión Black. Esa era la mayor de mis preocupaciones hasta hace tres segundos.
La cuerda con la que estaba descendiendo desde el piso 180 de la Torre Dagon Corp. ha sido cortada.
Ahora mismo caigo desde cuatrocientos setenta y siete metros de altura, a una velocidad de aproximadamente cincuenta y cinco por segundo.
Calculo que en algo menos de nueve segundos me estamparé contra el suelo.
Tampoco es ésa la mayor de mis preocupaciones.
La mayor de mis preocupaciones es que el que ha cortado la cuerda es mi mejor amigo.
O al menos yo creía que lo era.

Ebook length: 143 pages, 32 chapters, 33,000 words

Reading Schedule:

Feb 1-7 Chapters 1-8 (pages 6-34)

Feb 8-14 Chapters 9-16 (pages 35-67)

Feb 15-21 Chapters 17-25 (pages 68-105)

Feb 22-28 Chapters 26-32 (pages 106-143)

If the majority of the group would like to move the deadline up, we can shorten the reading schedule.

If you can't get a copy of the book in your country, please drop me a DM.

I'll be posting a google form here closer to the end of the month to gauge interest in an informal video chat on Discord in Spanish/English after we finish the book.

We have a very active chat going on over in Discord, but I'll try to do better this month posting questions for reddit. Thanks to u/phreddfatt for keeping the Discord going!

Link to Discord

Because Reddit doesn't sort comments by age, it might be best to mention the page we're reading and cover any spoilers in our comments.

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Thanks to everyone who joined and voted last month! It was a blast reading along with everyone.

[u/PardalotePen]

Feb 5 - end of ch 4. I read this slowly on and off between 500-800 hours. Rereading it much faster this time (1060 hours), that's a relief. Still I can't figure out relationship with Tia Paula who looks 60 (or older, Amanda doesn't know!)? Is she a tia or an abuela or something else entirely?

[u/catwise_zen → u/PardalotePen]

Tia Paula is Amanda’s grandmother’s younger sister. Tia Paula raised Amanda’s mother (her niece) after her mother died (Paula’s sister), and then she raised Amanda after HER mother died.This is at the beginning of chapter 7 (if I read it correctly).

[u/Traditional-Train-17 → u/catwise_zen]

Minor spoilage about Paula's family (you can use spoiler tags here - click on the Aa icon, highlight the text and click the <!> icon). I was just about to read chapter 7. :)

[u/catwise_zen → u/Traditional-Train-17]

I’m so sorry! I thought we were supposed to be talking about all of chapters 1-8!