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hauntedvictoria24's review against another edition
5.0
I really enjoyed this! This is the story of a mother searching for her daughters' killer and getting revenge for her murder. Overall, I would recommend this! Special Thank You to Azam Ahmed, Random House Publishing and NetGalley for allowing me to read a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review.
tracithomas's review against another edition
3.0
An intense story slowly told. I was interested in this book but wish it dug deeper into the cartels or was shorter. It was a lot of rehashing.
dhasenkampf's review
3.5
I enjoyed reading this book. It was a compelling story, and the author really made the setting come alive with vivid descriptions. But the timeline jumped around too much for my tastes. He would jump back and forth between different months and years between chapters and sometimes within them. I got confused about what had already happened. And I honestly would've preferred if he had waited a little longer to write the book so that we knew the final outcomes for some of the people discussed within. I realize this is real life and peoples' stories don't come to a neat end like in fiction, but so many storylines are left dangling, it was like a movie stopped 3/4 of the way through.
Still good, just not fantastic.
Still good, just not fantastic.
joannema7's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.25
ajith's review
dark
emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
4.0
The subtitle of this book is sufficient enough to grab one's attention for it alludes to something akin to the fight between David and Goliath. And it makes sense when we learn that the Zeta, one of the most dreaded cartels in Mexico who has been responsible for drug trafficking, abductions for ransom, wanton killings and macabre beheadings, was confronted by Miriam Rodriguez, a 50+ commoner mother from San Fernando, Tamaulipas.The vigilante in her stemmed from, to avenge, the disappearance of her 21 year daughter by the cartel in 2014, gut wrenching it was notwithstanding she also realized the state's ineptitude in delivering her speedy justice.
Over the course of the following years Miriam championed expedited actions by state authorities on the drug cartel induced violences and disappearances.To give you an idea of how menacing the problem was, a staggering 100,000 people have “disappeared” in Mexico because of the cartel violence.The book, in many places where the cartels were described, reminded me of the movie “Sicario”.
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