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etchlings's review
4.0
Not sure why, but I really enjoyed this book. Probably the nice world research and setting.
magneticcrow's review
4.0
The mashup of 1800s North America with Aztec and Lenape mythology is brilliant. I sorta wish this weren't the only book.
Irvine has a didactic bent to his prose, and though it improves as the novel progresses it's admittedly a little hard to get through those first 65 pages. Still, once you do you have monstrous, mummified were-mages and spurned Aztec gods and dead men with vendettas and weird, bulbous grotesques. Who wouldn't be willing to do just a little bit of wading to get to that?
Irvine has a didactic bent to his prose, and though it improves as the novel progresses it's admittedly a little hard to get through those first 65 pages. Still, once you do you have monstrous, mummified were-mages and spurned Aztec gods and dead men with vendettas and weird, bulbous grotesques. Who wouldn't be willing to do just a little bit of wading to get to that?
hypocean's review
2.0
As it stands, this is a story steeped in Mexican culture and religion with only one Mexican character (who dies early on, what a surprise). I wasn't motivated to like the main character or his daughter, and the antagonist was boring. The pacing was good, and the action was exciting, but I guess I was looking for something a little more emotionally and intellectually substantial. Honestly Stephen was my favourite part of the book and I was much more interested in him than the main plot. Good for reading on the train, but not much lasting power.
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