Review: I enjoyed it.  A great book. Got the Spanish version, too.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2013
This was fun. Not lengthy, but there is excitement throughout every chapter. I bought both versions in order to convert my Spanglish into speech resembling Spanish. I copied paragraph by paragraph the first chapter in English and put it into Google Translate. Then my reading the Spanish and studying began. A helluva lot slower. Next I read the Spanish version to see whether I was able to understand the story with ease.I live in Mexico like a hermit, and don't get around to talking Spanish with natives every day, which is necessary. I manage quite well in the bodega (market) and in the shopping place, but the everyday shopping vocabulary is not enough for interesting chats with most Mexicans.Living in Greece years ago when my kids (now 54 and 55) were youngsters, I bought books that were in both Greek and English: one language on the left-hand page; the other on the right. Fantastic. My kids read the Iliad and the Odyssey and Edgar Allen Poe stories using these books.  Of course, they were able to learn Greek fluently in a few months. One even ended up first in his class.I wish the publisher Tedd y Todd could do the same for this terrific series. A two-language version would do very well in the paperback marketplace. Unfortunately not in my primitive town where I'm the only expat, but in other cities (not only in Mexico but also in Costa Rica, where I lived for three years) where there are literally thousands of expats struggling to learn Spanish.Will absolutely be reading . . . and tackling . . . Black Rock volumes 2, 3, and 4.Ha! Maybe they'd want to publish my book Cry Rape/Grito Violacion.Author of Behind the Black Robes: Failed Justice