Review: Really?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
I applaude the author for writing a novel.  Few people can say that.  There are novels, and then there are novels.  The idea of a Zorro character was intriguing and I fell for it.  However, the writing was full of tired metaphors and cheesy asides so common to chick-lit.  I don't care for it.  I prefer more "grown-up" novels.  I read a novel to be entertained, not educated.  When I got to Chapter 4, it was little more than a history lesson on swordsmanship and fencing.  Not the appropriate place for this much narrative that has nothing to do with the story, but that seemed to be characteristic of the book.  History belongs in...well, history books.  Needless to say, I dropped it and went on to a better book.  Better luck with the next one.