A GORGEOUS retelling of the historical events of Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés entering Tenochtitlan and the court of emperor Moctezuma.
This novella reimagines a complex world that many of us have some passing familiarity with. It's trippy hallucinogenic; it thrives in court politics and religious variety, color, aroma.
Think multicultural Game of Throes meets Hunter S. Thompson packed into a tight 220 pages. TIP: Don't skip the author's notes to the translator. @bookstodon
@patl @bookstodon Thoroughly enjoyed this book, but why oh why did he not use quotation marks? It got pretty confusing at times.
Yeah, it wasn't meant to be an easy read :-). Shifting POVs, including the author's; trippy stuff everywhere. Both fast paced and dense as I had to keep the character names at hand to remember who was who.
I kinda loved the disorientation, actually
@patl @bookstodon BTW i loved the meta moments.
@farbel @bookstodon I did back up and reread those, smiling at the cheekiness.
I'm gonna let this one settle in my brain a bit, and re-read it in a few months.
GREAT standalone, but I'd love to read 8 more in the series
@patl @bookstodon Have you read Sudden Death?
@farbel @bookstodon Not yet; this is my first by the author. How did you like it?
@patl @bookstodon I haven't read it either. This one was gifted to me by a friend who had just read it.