Book reviews: Hot chica lit takes a sassy style to look at Latina life

“Right down to the label, “chica lit” is one pop- culture trend that was entirely predictable: Just add a Latina heroine to chick lit, then change the “k” to an “a.” The only question is, “What took so long?”

With such titles as “Friday Night Chicas,” and “Cinderella Lopez,” chica lit is a small but growing niche within chick lit, the category that has spawned such thinly sliced genres as “mommy lit” and “hen lit,” not to mention such hybrids as the chick-lit mystery.”

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