The Luck of Huemac

by Daniel J. Peters

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394513134
• ISBN13: 9780394513133
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 657 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The rise and fall of the Aztecs

Highly detailed with compelling characters, this novel really delivers. I’ve actually read it six times now! Although the proper names of the people, places, and deities are a challenge, the story lines are well crafted and exciting to experience. This novel focuses more on the superstitions, legends, and outright sorcery of the people. It’s quite graphic in many aspects and may not be appropriate for sensitive readers.

Huemac a fantastic read

I am an avid reader of biography, history and historical fiction, and "Luck of Huemac" by Daniel Peters is one of my dozen favorite books in this class. The characters, both real and invented, are extremely well drawn with great depth, all totally alive and believable. Likewise, the gods and places. And, thank goodness for the glossary, which helps those of us with poor memories keep track of all those characters, gods and places. I was particularly impressed with the author's treatment of the Aztec spiritual world, which was made believable even to skeptics. The story ends just after the arrival of Cortez (nothing given away here), and a brief history of this great catastrophy is presented with appropriate sadness and finality. A really terrific book.

The luck of Huemac is great

The book "The Luck of Huemac" by Daniel Peters is one of the most extraordinaryBooks I have ever had the privilege to read. The story records the struggle by his family to control the city of Tenocticlan and in the shadows Huemac Born under the Sign of the Rabbit and destined to by unlucky grows to be a legendary man. Huemac combats fierce opponents on the ball court and battlefield, learns the ancient lore of the priests and confronts the mysterious white gods. This story is not only a adventure story but also a heart touching story about Huemac's family over one century. Daniel peters flings you in to a exotic world totally alien to your mind the final century of the Aztec empire's supremacy in Mexico. I say as J.R.R. Toielkien is to Fantasy and Frank Herbert is to Sci-Fi Daniel Peters is the master of Historical Fiction by Mike

Definitely Delivered

This was a good book. I've read all three Aztec books by Gary Jennings and was left wanting more. This book delivered. It's an easy way to get a lot history inside a great story.

A very enjoyable book!

I have read all of Mr. Peters books and I have not been disapointed. You don't have to be a scholar in order to enjoy "The Luck of Huemac". The fall of the Aztec Empire is a topic that has inspired many authors, including Peter Daniels. Huemac, an "unlucky" Mexica marked from birth, ironically evades death and misfortune only to witness the end of his world and the death of their gods. If you liked this book, you should read also Gary Jennings' "Aztec" (an equally impresive book)or "The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico" by Bernal Diaz del Castillo( this is a historical chronicle by one of Hernan Cortez's captains who participated in the Conquest). "The Luck of Huemac" is quality reading and fiction literature at its best!

Great book that really sets you in the life and times of the

This is a great book that really shows you what life might have been like for the Aztecs. It covers everything frome war to love to school to politics. A great book.