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The Queen of the South
I finished The Queen of the South around 2am. It was pretty good. Very slow and depressing for the first half, then the main character goes through a change and you have to swallow an unbelievable premise - which I never do very well, but then, after all the slowness, there is the biggest, longest shootout I have ever come across in a book. Huge gun battle taken right from a Bruce Willis movie, right at the end of this slow, deep, depressing book. And then it ends, without anything resolved.
So there were problems with it, yes. On the other hand, I really liked the author's writing, and I tend to love stories written by Spanish and Mexican authors. Plus, there was a definitely believable twist at the end that did surprise me and makes me want to go back and read the whole beginning over again.
So I do recommend it - just know that it is slow going at first.
Now I have no more excuses to not read Chaucer's Book of the Duchess or The Great Gatsby, so here I go.
Posted by Pischina at January 26, 2008 9:27 AM
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