Despite my technical issues with the audiobook, I will definitely be buying Book 2 as soon as I finish this review. When she did male voices such as the Chief, she tended to mumble, and I had to keep going back and replaying to figure out what she was saying. I recommend the reader listen to someone like James Marsters and take a few more acting lessons. The battle scenes and climax were particularly noticeable in their lack of emotion. The narrator did pick up some emotive qualities as it went on, but she's by no means Tantor's best reader. Regarding the narration, for the first couple sentences, I honestly thought it was a computer reading. It was interesting, in it's own way, to realize how much the US has changed in a few decades. It was a bit surreal to read a book set in the '80's, since it seems like it should be relatively close in time to now (I was a small child when this was originally published), but the world of the book is so different from 2019. Instead, it comes off as a lack of research. I'd be more willing to let it go as the character's perspective except that the one speaking was supposed to be an expert.
There was the usual lack of understanding about multiple organized religions that you tend to see in a humanist work. There were some overly convenient plot twists, and some turns in conversation that stumbled rather than flowed. I finished this one, and I'll get the second book. The story was fairly well constructed, better than the other series' I've tecently tried out. One of the Better Fantasy Novels I've Found Lately And Tezcatlipoca is not the only Aztec god walking in the world. As a Guardian, she is sworn to protect mankind, even at the cost of her own life. Tezcatlipoca and his four beautiful handmaidens are preparing for a great sacrifice that will transform North America into a new Aztec realm.ĭiana isn't sure her powers are strong enough to take on those of a risen Aztec god, but she has no choice.
Using modern science and ancient magics, Diana and Mark discover that they are tailing no ordinary serial killer but the awakened avatar of an Aztec god. And not just any witch, either - Diana Tregarde is a Guardian, charged with protecting the Earth and all its creatures. Luckily, Mark has an ace up his sleeve: an attractive young romance novelist who happens to be a practicing witch. He also knows that his meager psychic abilities aren't enough to identify the killers, much less stop them. Dallas Police Detective Mark Valdez isn't just any cop, he's a psychic who knows that the cattle mutilations and torture murders he's been investigating are somehow tied together.
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