A review by nabillatte
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue

challenging dark funny informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A strange novel, that was a bit more all over the place than I would have liked, jumping between a fictional tennis match between Caravaggio and Quevedo, their lives and works, the history of tennis, emails from the author to his publisher, of Cortez and Malintzin (which surely laid the groundwork for You Dreamed of Empires), and more. Still interesting throughout, but the all over the place nature, which I suppose was meant to mimic a tennis match, meant it lacked a little cohesion.