A review by lucy_qhuay
La reina del sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

4.0

If it wasn't for the last 40% or so, that I found a bit slow at times, I would have given this book 5 stars.

The writing was beautiful, drawing me into the edge-of-a-knife world of drug trafficking, with its ruthless rules and strange codes of loyalty and honour.

Teresa Mendoza, the protagonist, was very intriguing indeed. It was very fascinating being inside her mind.

Sometimes it felt like she felt things way too deeply and others like she was alienated from everything, including herself.

The parts when she talked about all the Teresas she had been and lost, particularly the one watching her from mirrors and shadows only strengthened that idea.

I guess that represented her naiveté and innocence. And even happiness itself. She saw and did too much to simply lead a normal life.