When She Weeps

By: Jon Athan

Narrated by: Sasha Monegro

Vanessa Ramirez, a 28-year-old employee at a beauty salon, wants to leave Mexico for greener pastures in the United States with her children, 10-year-old Lucía and 5-year-old Joaquín. With cartel violence spilling closer and closer to her doorstep every day, she seeks the help of the local coyotes—people smugglers—but is unable to afford the rising fees for their services. So, she reluctantly turns to Mexico’s criminal underworld to fund her escape and finds herself intertwined with the cartels she was so desperate to avoid.

A world of lust, greed, barbaric violence, and heartbreaking tragedy awaits her. Tragedy that will send her down the path to becoming a terrifying legend...

Jon Athan, the author of The Girl in the Attic and Am I Beautiful?, brings you a non-supernatural reimagining of the classic La Llorona urban legend in this brutal epic of extreme horror.

WARNING: This novel contains graphic content. Listener discretion is advised.

©2022 Jonathan Sixtos (P)2025 Jonathan Sixtos

Good story, poor narrator

I understand the benefit of having a native Spanish speaker for a story like this, where a bulk of the text is in Spanish and pronunciation is key. What was incredibly annoying and broke the immersion was the narrator’s repeated used of “axed” or “aksed” rather than saying “asked”. This would be fine if it was only a few times, however this word is repeated 100+ times and was pronounced the same every time.
The immersive benefit of having a Spanish speaker is completely negated when the English words are repeated mispronounced.

Loved the storyline and characters!

I really loved the storyline and the characters! The narrator speaking Spanish and then translating what was spoken made the story even more intriguing. The narrator just made the story so much better it was a great story love the characters love the storyline loved where this went, but the narrator really pulled it together.

Lean how to narrate

It’s not hard. If a mechanic can’t change oil then it’s a terrible mechanic. When a “ narrator “ can’t say “ ask” it’s time for a new one. “A..S.K” not “A.XX” ridiculous

It didn’t say anywhere that this book was in Spanish!

The bouncing back and forth between Spanish and English was horrible!!!
There was no need for it!