Customer Reviews

The Conquistador (Casca (Americana))

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I felt the review below was a little harsh as the actual story itself was fairly readable. Obviously the personal preference of that reviewer coloured the overall rating, but part of the charm of Casca's epic story is history itself. That said I do agree to some degree that this novel felt like a history lesson, particularly in the middle portion which drifted away from Casca and concentrated on Cortes and the Spanish and took the reader through what did feel like a history book.

The strengths of this novel rested to a large part with the beginning quarter and the last quarter. The start was great; Casca a prisoner of the Inquisition in Seville and his torture and eventual solution to his imprisonment read very well. The latter part of the book dealt with the growing tension in Tenochtitlan and the eventual break out by Casca and his Spanish allies from the Aztec revolt.

I felt a three star rating more reasonable; not one of the best Cascas but certainly not one of the worst by a long chalk.

I really found the Casca books entertaining and I was intrigued that Sadler was the author of these books. However, a few times he just went overboard on the history. This and THE MONGOL are two of the worst in that respect. There just isn`t enough Casca. All Sadler has done is stick Casca into the middle of a history lesson.