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Summary: Should be called "The Adventures of Mestizo Boy"
Review: This book wasn't written by Gary Jennings, so don't expect to find so much of his writing style on the book...
OK, first of all this book has the same relation to the Aztec culture as a phone book... well, maybe a little more...
This book doesn't deal too much with the Aztec world as the previous ones, so that was a downer, it deals more with the colonial spanish life of manhood, honor and chivalry... Don't get me wrong, this was a GREAT book as itself, but not as a sequel to the previous ones...
This book tells the life of Cristobal, of his life as a Mestizo, and a lépero, the worst kind of living being in New Spain...
I don't know what, but there was something just plain wrong about this book, perhaps, the little connection to the Aztec world; or the annoying appearance of spanish words in useless parts of a sentence, which btw seems the author didn't even cared to investigate further on the meaning or the proper conjugation of the word, I mean, the least he could do was take a trip to a latin ghetto and ask how to say properly "dishonest books", instead of relying on a crummy internet translator. There's also the scarce research that was made on the very little amount of Aztec tradition that appears on the book. Another thing was the obligated sexual parts that had to appear throughout the whole story, most of it useless, and made to make the book look thicker...
All of these mistakes could be forgivable on a normal independent novel, but this was the conclusion of the Aztec series...
But still, this book had excellent parts, that took a lift out of it, parts that made the book somewhat lighter and funnier...
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