Aztec Autumn

I am not sure what to make of Gary Jennings "Aztec" series. I love the writing and history but I truly get tired of the pointless sex. Many other reviewers think his first novel, "Aztec", was much better than this book. I am not sure. Both show the richness and brutality of life in central Mexico ar......more

I read the first one in this series a few years back, and enjoyed it enough to pick up the sequels. So – I knew what I was getting into, with this book. But – boy, are these trashy! However, they’re not non-stop trashy. There’s also a lot of historical detail in them – but, I wouldn’t actually *trus......more

Unsurprisingly, a sequel to Jennings' Aztec, although it's more of a sequel of theme & place rather than of character -- there are just a few, minor holdovers from the first book, and the first book's narrator, Mixtli (in fact the father of this book's narrator, Tenamaxtli, although Tenamaxtli doesn......more

When I was in Grade 10, my math teacher recommended this book to me. I immediately bought the three book series and have had it on my bookshelf, unread, for the past 16 years or so. Switching my antidepressants has really left me in a reading slump. However, I was finally able to plough through this......more

First, I'm not sure how much of this book was written by Gary Jennings himself. I'm ready to accept that he drafted the outline, and maybe some of his trademark travel and sexual scenes, by himself. But the uninspired narration, the hurried ending, the moralistic undertone couldn't have come from Th......more