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A dry, dull fantasy novel in which both the "murder mystery" element AND the "Aztec Empire" elements are just thin window-dressing, ultimately interchangeable with any other genre and any other setting/culture. You could have set this in a fantasy version of Rome, Egypt, feudal Japan, Mughal India, etc. and it wouldn't have made a bit of difference. The author throws in a lot of superficial mystery elements, throws in a bunch of Aztec-sounding names, but that's about as deep as it gets. Add a ca
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