Hard to rate this one. I was fascinated with this story and found myself doing a lot of "googling" to read more about this meeting and fall of the Aztec Empire. I remember learning about the Aztecs in middle school, but not much more. It was challenging to understand some details and plot at first due to some characters having several different names and the unfamiliarity of the words - knowing what was a person, place or group of peoples. But it didn't hide the overarching story and was easier and easier to follow as the book the went on.

The ending was a twist as it is is not what really happened. It is an intriguing way to end a story to contemplate would could have been.

Also, not covered in the book is why Mexico City is not a lake like the historical empire, because it was drained over and over even into the 1960's. What a shame I think.