Title: Lied to
Product review: I picked up Aztec Blood (paperback version) at a bookstore after reading the quotes on the cover about how wonderful Gary Jennings is, only to discover on closer inspection that he didn't write this book. The publisher chose to obscure this fact to the point of fraud, in my opionion.Regarding the book itself, I found it VERY uneven in the treatment of the characters and plot (what did all that Aztec god dream stuff have to do with anything, anway?). I don't think the book knows whether it is a serious treatment of life and suffering during its time/place or a Flashman-like tongue-in-cheek sexual-hijinks anit-hero adventure. I did finish it (though it was touch and go for a while), and found the historical aspects interesting, and for all I know the books actually written and finished by Gary Jennings are better, but Aztec Blood should not have been published as is. Shame on the publisher.
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