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shgmclicious 's review for:
Queen of the South
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I'm really glad I read this, if for no other reason than I never read books like this, not this scope, not this topic, not this style. This is the type of story I prefer in my mindless movies but I might have just had my mind changed, because after 100 or so pages, this novel was rather gripping, if confusing due to my very square-ness when it comes to drugs and violence and the vocabulary and context associated with them.
That said, there are some problems, like jumping around a lot, and the inexplicable and unnecessary extra storyline of a fictionalized version of the author cropping up to research the novel's real protagonist. It probably would have been a much tighter and more readable narrative without that.
In doing some browsing into reviews and descriptions of the novel, I can say that I find it creatively fascinating because of its unique mixture of fact and fiction. It's not the usual thinly disguised biography, but it incorporates real people in a fascinating way.
That said, there are some problems, like jumping around a lot, and the inexplicable and unnecessary extra storyline of a fictionalized version of the author cropping up to research the novel's real protagonist. It probably would have been a much tighter and more readable narrative without that.
In doing some browsing into reviews and descriptions of the novel, I can say that I find it creatively fascinating because of its unique mixture of fact and fiction. It's not the usual thinly disguised biography, but it incorporates real people in a fascinating way.