Daughters of the Sun

This story is about La Malinche, the woman who aided Cortez in betraying the Aztec people. Not much is known about her but I thought that Sally Hayton Keeva did a wonderful job filling in the gaps. She gives her a twin sister, named Xochtil, who is her exact opposite, passive where she is rebellious, and forgiving where she is angry and bitter. The story is told from both of their points of view. Both of them are sold into slavery at an early age and witness some of the worst brutalities of the Aztec culture. I think that she so far has done a better job at showing the raw, brutal cruelty of the Aztec's than Jenning's so far. Her facts play second to the story, where Jenning's seems to get weighed down by a lot of historical facts and side stories. (I haven't finished Aztec though). I think she portrays beautifully the point where humanity and culture and what you have been brought up to believe meet, and you don't always end up sure of everything. Anyway, I found this book a fascinating adventure into a world on the brink of crumbling under the Spanish Conquest.