Biting The Snake's Tail by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

It's another foreign-to-me setting, which I seem to be reading a lot of at the moment, and the writing gave me an impression of Mexico City and the slummy parts in which the story takes place. The dialogue was nice, realistically abrupt in places, and pretty good at painting a picture of the characters quickly. I'm not a fan of gore but thankfully it wasn't too over the top in this story, just enough to convey the violence.

The plot left me wanting a bit, I was hooked in but then wanted more resolution, but (once again) the end is calculated to do just that: no happy endings. I could have done with more, it felt like a great setting for a novel.

Interesting.