![]() The crisp prose and historical tidbits about each location on Casiopeia’s odyssey also added flavor. For all its somewhat glib adventures, it’s an emotional story, and readers run the gamut alongside its young protagonist. There isn’t much dawdling in the book, but I did feel as though I’d been on a long journey by the time it was through. For Casiopeia, there can be no going home. Now that she’s been seen leaving it with a man, her reputation is ruined. Family issues aside, her home region is also extremely religious. Then again, life at home as a servant wasn’t that great, either. And that’s exactly what will happen until she can help the deposed god reclaim the rest of his body. Nowhere do her dreams include having the life slowly sucked out of her by Hun-Kame. ![]() Trapped in a life of servitude to her harsh uncle and tyrannical (somewhat one-dimensional) cousin, she has dreams of driving a car, swimming in the sea and dancing like in the movies. ![]() Sounds like a romance, right?Ĭasiopea is not a willing participant in her adventure-although it’s fair to say she’s a dazed one. ![]() I dare you.Īfter finding the Mayan God of Death locked in her grandfather’s room, Casiopeia Tun embarks on a modern-ish (a hundred years ago) Odyssey-style quest to return Hun-Kame to power and thwart his usurping twin. ![]()
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