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Brilliant, captivating, stunning - just a few words I would use to describe this book. Aztec by Gary Jennings is a vast, immersive historical epic that reconstructs the world of the Aztec Empire with extraordinary detail, intensity, and ambition. Told as the life story of Mixtli, an elderly Aztec scribe dictating his memoirs to Spanish priests after the fall of Tenochtitlan, the novel spans decades of experience, chronicling both the rise of a man and the collapse of a civili