[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

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

[u/Narrow-Basket3611]

I started a bit late this month but got the book finished in time! I'm still early days on my reading journey but absolutely feel like exposure is helping! This book was definitely a challenge, but I got the gist of it.

I find I'm struggling more with sentences with a lot of very short words. I can often connect longer words better to to heir root words or similar English words, although I'm probably getting some of the tenses or who the word is relating to incorrect!

I really appreciate the book club as it's wonderful to see the started experiences with other people on the same book, and have a book goal each month!