A quick read that I had picked up as a horror flick for the Halloween season. Boy, could I have not been more wrong about that, haha. It's a two hundred odd page punch in the gut about the crippling forces of greed and capitalism in modern Mexico, and their subsequent nihilistic dehumanizing of the area's inhabitants.

The life-like characters are are so heart-breakingly crushed and ground to their barest, most raw and human emotions. The book has a massive sense of societal and generational inertia as the inhabitants of Villa try to pick up the scraps thrown aside in a world of greed and extreme violence.

Told in the style of the some village locals nattering away in your ear, the book absolutely flies by as the energy of the happenings carries the story so quickly, like they can't wait to get the best gossip out. Profane, numb, and utterly devoid of hope.