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Title: The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Andrew Hurley ISBN: 0-399-15185-0 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 03 June, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A gripping book, the best Perez-Reverte I've read
Comment: I have read Perez-Reverte's "The Fencing Master" and "The
Nautical Chart". I consider these books intellectual noir,
whose plot revolves, in part, around a feme fatal. The
beautiful faithless women in these book are one dimensional.
Even in "The Nautical Chart", where the book revolves around
the beautiful Tanger, we never really get a feeling for who
she is. Coy, the man who loves her, spends the book trying
to understand her. But in the end Coy only has a collection
of observations that never really add up to a whole.
Having read two books by Perez-Reverte where the women were
beautiful and dangerous characters without full dimension
I wondered if Perez-Reverte could actually write about a
three dimensional women. The answer has been provided in
"The Queen of the South".
The central character is Teresa, a complex woman with a
complex history. By the end of the book I felt that
Perez-Reverte has created a character that could have lived
beyond the pages of the book. Before becoming a novelist
Perez-Reverte was a new reporter and it shows in this book.
When I finished reading the last page, I had the strange
feeling that the events recounted really could have happened
exactly as outlined. This was reinforced by the fact that
Perez-Reverte has incorporated some actual people into his
story.
Teresa as a dark character and by the end of
the book she has blood on her hands. Perhaps because
Perez-Reverte provides such an intimate portrait of Teresa
I was unable to see her as evil, despite some of her actions.
We see Teresa grow from a scared young woman to full adulthood
into a sophisticated woman.
The story of "The Queen of the South" is told by a reporter
and the detail in which the world of drug running is
described in amazing detail. Like Fredrick Forsyth's "Odessa
File", one is reading a novelization of actual reality.
The story is gripping. From the start we feel that Teresa
is living on borrowed time. There is nothing of the slow
buildup that exists in "The Fencing Master". This book
is a page turner from the start.
Rating: 1
Summary: Please go back to the "arcane"
Comment: If no one had told me what I was reading, I would never have guessed that the author of this *sensationally* violent trash could be the same person who wrote Seville Communion, Flanders Panel, Fencing Master, etc. I only hope that it is a "stage" and that he returns to what Booklist called his "arcane" writing --- write what you know, not what you research.
Rating: 5
Summary: steady and haunting
Comment: I admit, my interest took a while to build. Once finished,though I was sad. The book is haunting with excellent descriptions of the heroine's history,motivation and culture. The parallel story lines-one from the protagonist,another from a reporter investigating her history are very complimentary. Finally, the rich description of Mexican and Spanish cultures,as pertaining to narco-trafficking was fascinating.
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Title: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lucia Graves ISBN: 1594200106 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason ISBN: 0385337116 Publisher: Dial Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Narrows: A Novel by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316155306 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: A Good Year by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0375405917 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Codex by Lev Grossman ISBN: 0151010668 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 08 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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