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This was a weird one - the good kind of weird!* It's set in a world that is heavily inspired by Aztec culture, which was a nice new setting to explore.* It's on the grim side, with plenty of sacrifices to all sorts of god's.* It's a murder mystery, as our main protagonist is supposed to find out who kidnapped and most likely murdered a priestess. Lovely twisted tale with different suspects that I enjoyed.* It has family struggles at the heart of the story, as one of teh main suspects is his own
Aztec murder mystery sounds like a great idea but, damn, this was disappointing. Even more so because it started really promising with interesting world building that immediately drew me in. Then it fell flat on its butt and did a lot of telling and no showing. The plot and the characters were so boring, I almost didn't finish it. The writing wasn't great either. The constant swearing in the form of *whatever deity* strike me/blind me/curse him might have been the most annoying thing I've ever s...
This was interesting mostly because of the Aztec culture setting. The names of the gods and the overall mythology were shiny and new to me which always adds a star but the overall mystery and character development was somewhat mediocre.
Servant of the Underworld has been called Aztec noir - a traditional noir detective story set in the world of Aztec mythology. I have some mixed feelings about that combination.The plot is a traditional noir detective story. I am not personally very familiar with noir tropes, but the other members of my book club said they are all present and accounted for. Acatl is the detective. The jaguar knights are cops, with a corrupt police chief to boot. It is interesting to see this familiar type of sto...
