60th book of 2021
Reading period: July 22st 2021 – July 24th 2021
Summary
The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own.
Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it—and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea’s demise, but success could make her dreams come true.
In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City—and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld.
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I had a great time reading this, which helped me step out of a reading slump.
The book’s pace is strange as the events of the book take place in a short time, less than one week, but the descriptions are so detailed that it slows the book’s pace. At the same time, those descriptions are crucial in the story as they help you dive into it. When you read this book, you are in the story and travel with Casiopea Tun and Hun-Kame.
This is a great book to discover a lot about Mexican culture, its history, and its consequences. Also, as we follow the Mayan god of death, you have a ton of information about the Mayan mythology, and even if I was a little lost from time to time, I found it so interesting.
I was surprised by the multiple pov, and there is a missing one which would have made me like the romance side of the story a little more.
Now that I have finished this book, I will definitively continue Mexican Gothic this autumn.
Liz.
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