There are some slow bits… but the detailed historical parts are interspersed with fairly frequent (and often completely ridiculous) sleazy, sleazy sex scenes. In reality, I don’t believe any one leader was responsible for the various local peoples’ resisting invasion, slaughter and enslavement – but it makes for a decent story. In the book, Tenamaxtli is the man responsible for organizing the Mixtón War ( ).

In a graphic opening scene, Tenamaxtli views his father being burned to death by the Spaniards, for heresy, and develops a desire for revenge which will determine the course of his entire life. This book tells the story of Tenamaxtli, the son of the narrator of the previous book, whom he never knew.

There’s also a lot of historical detail in them – but, I wouldn’t actually *trust* any particular detail in any of these to be historically accurate without looking it up and verifying it in a couple of other sources first. So – I knew what I was getting into, with this book. I read the first one in this series a few years back, and enjoyed it enough to pick up the sequels.

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