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Just for clarification, is this supposed to be the World Mystery chosen for September? The "Currently Reading" section has a different Herrera work listed.
Mome_Rath wrote: "Just for clarification, is this supposed to be the World Mystery chosen for September? The "Currently Reading" section has a different Herrera work listed."Ha, I put in the wrong book of his. Thanks for catching it. The covers are very similar. I even read the wrong one first. Both are short, so it didn't set me back too much. Both are good.
Glad to hear both are good! I'll hopefully get to this one once I knock out a couple more books.
Hmm. Well, this book was short, but it did have two things going against it for me as a reader:1. The noir style has never been a favorite of mine, and the novella gets a little more graphic than I generally prefer
2. This book takes place during an epidemic -- albeit one more deadly than this year's Coronavirus. It's not the most relaxing to read about folks needing face masks and trying not to spend too much time outside their houses.
Despite all that, the plot was fast-paced, and the book was a quick read. It takes place in a non-descript city that could have been Mexico City or any fairly large city, and features a fixer called upon to solve problems -- in this case amongst rival crime families. The Romeo and Juliet parallels are easy to see with this book, though I also thought of it as a grittier West Side Story. I don't know that I'll pick up any other of this author's books, but I'm sure he'd appeal to some readers.
