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Label: audible.com Manufacturer: audible.com Publisher: audible.com Studio: audible.com Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Historical novelist Gary Jennings returns to the time and place of his international bestseller Aztec one generation after the conquistadors have all but destroyed the culture. The once-shining capital city of Tenochtitlan has been renamed Mexico City. Eighteen-year-old Tenamaxtli, the novel's hero, has traveled with his mother from the northern region, where they have been kept abreast of the progress of the malignant, marauding, disease-bearing Spanish. In the course of witnessing the execution of an old Aztec, Tenamaxtli's mother reveals that the victim is, in fact, her son's father. Everything is in place for vengeance, and over the novel's next several years, Tenamaxtli organizes an ill-fated insurrection, enjoying many sexual adventures along the way. Told plainly and at some remove, Jennings has reserved the fancier footwork for an excursion into Aztec culture, creating a detailed tapestry of a struggling, vanquished race. Readers familiar with Mexican history will welcome the rich details of this vengeance drama; those new to it will be impressed by Jennings's exhaustive research. The narrative reads like a journal, its language meant to evoke some generic past. Perhaps this is a distancing device, allowing readers to focus on the rich weave of cultural and historic elements rather than the carnage, cruelty, and genocide that characterize this unhappy piece of Mexican history. Product Description: After the Aztec empire falls to the Spaniards, a young Aztec named Tenama+a7xtli begins recruiting from among his fellow survivors of the Conquest to once again challenge the Spaniards and restore the Aztec empire. By the author of Aztec. 250,000 first printing." Average Rating:
 Rating:  - over the topIt's said that everyone has one good novel in them. In Jennings' case this may have been "Aztec". Certainly, "Aztec Autumn" isn't nearly as good. It's almost as if he's run out of ideas and is trying too hard. An example is his use of sexual scenes and discriptions. He overdoes it and they are neither interesting nor titillating. It is possible that Jennings' other novels are better but I, for one, will never know. "Aztec Autumn" killed my interest in reading more. Ron ... Read More Rating:  - Disappointing!What a waste of my time this was! What a disappointing book from the author of "The Aztec". It looks as if he was strapped for cash and sold this piece to anybody who would buy it...Why such an unknown publishing house? Were the major ones aware that his novel was crap? The faults of this story are so many that it would be a waste to count them all.. The man being burnt at the stake at the beginning is no other than the main character of his previous novel. Then he gets to meet his daughter at ... Read More Rating:  - A Disservice to the Memory of Gary JenningsThis book would never have been published had Gary Jennings been alive to prevent it. It is obvious that someone controlling his papers--notes, outlines, partial writing of a projected novel-- sought to make money out of his incomplete work by completing it for him and doing a miserable job of it. Jennings himself was so meticulous an author in every regard that he would have been embarrassed to have his name associated with this piece of trash. It is to be hoped that someone else, someone ... Read More Rating:  - Saga of a Proud PeopleAZTEC AUTUMN is a sequel to Gary Jennings' earlier novel, AZTEC. Even so, it stands alone. The primary character of the first book makes his only appearance, at his execution, in the first chapter of this one. From that point, the story is told from the viewpoint of the burned heretic's son, an Aztec prince from an area not subjugated by the Spanish. When he learns of his true identity, the prince (Called Juan Britanico because his Aztec name is too difficult to spell) vows to wipe the Spaniards from the ... Read More Rating: - Not as good as "Aztec"; but not bad as they say, eitherGary Jennings was an author known for his great historical novels, based on enormous and thorough research, very sexually active characters, developed in a level that few writers can master, and unusual situations brought to light by an uncommon and skillful style of writing. I think "Aztec" is his masterpiece, but "The journeyer" and "Raptor" are not that far behind. While reading "Aztec", I was totally transported to the "one world", back in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries of the christian ... Read More |
