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Title: Dull
Review: Looking for the dash and adventure of Johnston McCulley's pulp hero Zorro? Then don't look here!Allende's attempt to produce an origin for Zorro has less excitment than one of those .99 romance novels with Fabio on the cover. Yes, it is written better than that type of work, slightly, but as Allende struggles so much to be politically correct with multiculturalism and feminism this book is simply dull. Even her attempts to weave real historical action into the story fall flat. The novel is nothing but page after page of nothing happening. There is no fun in reading it, which is supposed to the point of picking up something with Zorro in it. Indeed, finishing Allende's Zorro was a chore.If you want to read of the adventures of Zorro, find reprints of McCulley's pulp novels, or find Alex Toth's or Don MacGregor's collected comic works on "the Fox". In those works, as it should, in the name of justice the sword sings and the whip snaps.
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