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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
While I found Teresa's life interesting and enjoyed learning how she became the Queen of the South, I did not enjoy the overall execution. There was a lot of fluff put into this book that I did not care much for. I think I would've enjoyed this much more if it were written in first person. The text was extremely dense, and some of the language has not translated well into present times.
I did like Teresa and her resilience working with misogynistic men who believe they are powerful. She handled them with grace. That was my favorite part about this book. Teresa kept her loyalty and did not change just because she became wealthy. She was wholesome and fair for the most part. I respect that about her character.
I did like Teresa and her resilience working with misogynistic men who believe they are powerful. She handled them with grace. That was my favorite part about this book. Teresa kept her loyalty and did not change just because she became wealthy. She was wholesome and fair for the most part. I respect that about her character.
Am I the only one that thought this book was a bit on the boring side? I didn't admire the main character for her drug world survival... she got what she wanted by sleeping with men. The author's tone, to someone who was unaware of the shroud of mystery around the story, is overdramatic and drawn out. There is gorgeous prose, some paragraphs I even copied down, but the story and characters are frustratingly slow to develop.
I really, really liked this story from point one. It starts right from the start and goes right to the end. There were some moments of near-Hollywood shoot-em-up towards the end that I thought were a little beneath the rest of the book's tone, but it was a really good read. I'm a little confilcted about the glorification of narco-trafficking, but I still dug Theresa Mendoza a LOT!
This was quite the ride. A bit slow-moving at the beginning, Perez-Reverte's writing eventually grabs hold of you and takes you on the ride of Teresa Mendoza, drug transport....queenpin? While Teresa is never quite a sympathetic character, you still end up rooting for her as her life is revealed on the pages, told in alternating "journalistic investigation" and narrative style.
The crowning achievements of this book were the descriptions of characters - the author has an AMAZING knack for distilling physical characteristics and small nuances of character in less than a few sentences. He does it so well that despite the large cast of characters, when people were reintroduced I remembered them perfectly, and if you all know my shitty memory, this is quite the feat.
There is a certain psychology to this book, of take or be taken contrasted with the contrasting images of Teresa Mendoza she keeps in her own head, that serve as central themes and guide the story. It's a means of pulling things together that sometimes worked and sometimes bored tf out of me. It is those slow moments that dragged things down for me, the esoteric inaction. Still a fantastic read that I 1000% can see why it was made into a tv show.
The crowning achievements of this book were the descriptions of characters - the author has an AMAZING knack for distilling physical characteristics and small nuances of character in less than a few sentences. He does it so well that despite the large cast of characters, when people were reintroduced I remembered them perfectly, and if you all know my shitty memory, this is quite the feat.
There is a certain psychology to this book, of take or be taken contrasted with the contrasting images of Teresa Mendoza she keeps in her own head, that serve as central themes and guide the story. It's a means of pulling things together that sometimes worked and sometimes bored tf out of me. It is those slow moments that dragged things down for me, the esoteric inaction. Still a fantastic read that I 1000% can see why it was made into a tv show.
This was interesting. I thought it would be a thriller, but it reads more like literature.