And continue the adventures of not so long ago, red goatherd of La Gomera.
After the debacle of evil hadado Fort Nativity, Cienfuegos, who had been caring for the Haitian Sinalinga-the mother of his son, while the Evil Spirit swept the island paradise and fierce attack Canoabo bloodthirsty horde eliminated the last remnants of the English presence in the west of the ocean meets another survivor of the fort, the old Chips, Santa Maria Carpenter. Together they flee aboard Seviya a solid and stable boat in which the old and a select few thought leaving the land of the cacique Guacaraní. His wandering sea, dehydration and will take to replenish tired on another island, which will become prisoners of women and the shaman of a Caribbean village, the fierce and feared cannibalistic islanders.
- What the hell wants a chess a cannibal?
"Maybe to eat the queen.
This time, moreover, we find another parallel story of Mariana Montenegro, the new identity of Ingrid Grass, that the boat captain Juan de la Cosa and the friendship of Luis de Torres, comes the new world. There, will be used to present other notable figures such as the great, brave and honorable swordsman Alonso de Ojeda, in contrast to an incompetent and stupid, as in the first book, Christopher Columbus, who seems to only have talent as captain, the runaway comedy (of which mention a couple of chapters always between disbelief and absurdity) or princess Anacaona, wife of Canoabo.
And it does not let the poor goatherd who submits a thousand and one dirty tricks one after another, teaching is always a false paradise, a comfortable end to their adventures, which always turns out to be a mirage. As always too, as is a constant in this series of novels, a pinch-pinch-or not so chance, the sharp wit of the goatherd, and a survival instinct immutable, fueled by the desire to go to Seville and Germany to meet his love, will be the basis around which to resolve the problems that always plague the red.
A story as fast and agile in the first issue, the same touch of adventure, humor, with the same amount of violence, sex-in Cienfuegos is a real motor-argument, lies, love and the reflection of the cultural clash between Europeans and natives. Thus, the author writes a sequel perfectly faithful to the first, but in a much more alien environment, as the Guanche spent alone or surrounded by native only much of the book. However, that second part drops at times, usually due to falls in rhythm with respect to the first, although specific episodes as God homorístico Chess Knight, the appearance of the chameleon or the tense and violent moment of confrontation with Cienfuegos homosexuality, which the natives consider it a perfectly normal and respectable choice.
Figueroa is broadened, as well, so I read it at times, seems to be a constant of his books, in horrible torture methods, focusing, in this case, the terrible tamandua demon, which usually take the form of an anteater, or the mistreatment of Indians as Goliath rabble, Irigoyen and his family.
Note: 8.5. Perhaps at times the pace enfarrague a reading that is somewhat slower than in the first part of the series, however, there are whole chapters that help maintain a very high level.
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