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Curse of the ChupaCabra

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The Curse of The Chupacabra by Rudolfo Anayais about a young woman named Rosa Medina. Rosa is a folklorist and a professor in pursuit of the mythological "Chupacabra". Rosa finds herself in Mexico hunting down what the locals call the "goat sucker" the native Mexicans have claimed sightings of the beast attacking and killing their farm animals. For Rosa the goat sucker is easy to track down, as she finds out the chupacabra has a specific diet and that is the brains of it's prey, "He examined th goat carefully. 'Let's see if there is any blood'. He took the knife and cut the goats throat. 'No, the goats blood was not drained'. 'So what killed the goat?' Rosa asked. 'I don't know.' Herminio replied, examining the goat again. 'Ah, look at this.' He pointed to the top of the goats skull. 'Looks like two holes,' Rosa said, peering at the puncture wounds. 'Something bore into the skull?' Herminio nodded. He took a saw and cut into the goat's head. When he was done he pried thhe halves apart. The gray matter was mush. 'Dios mío!' h cried. 'Chupacabra is not drinking the blood of animals; the monster destroys their brains." (page fifteen) Rosa later comes to find out that the beast has been captured by major drug traffickers. The drug traffickers are using chupacabra against their clients.
I give the book two out of five stars because I think that the book was suspenseful at some parts but it was mostly a boring read that dragged along at slow pace. I think that Anaya focused more on the dangerous drug traffickers in Mexico rather than writing a story about a curse of a mythological monster. The book has frequent Spanish vocabulary wich defiantly helps set the tone for the book but considering I'm a spanish one student I had moments where I became confused because of the Spanish dialect. I think Anaya should've added translations to the bottom of each page to help his non spanish speaking readers. I gave the book two stars one for the creative and misleading plot twists and another for the intresting Mexican culture inbeded in the book, also i could read some of the Spanish and it was pretty cool to use my Spanish out of the class room. Over all I rate it 2/5 stars.