The Goldsmith's Daughter was written really well. A friend of mine recommended it to me a while ago, and only now I had the chance to read it. I must tell you, I was impressed with it. It was a great story with a wonderful plot. I felt like I was right there next to the main character, Itacate throughout the entire novel. It was very descriptive and included a lot of facts that helped me better understand facts about the Aztec Empire. I will definitely recommend it to my friends and family and I will definitely read it again in the new year! A fast, interesting read, and nice prose, but the Aztec heroine's mindset is anachronistically modern, the prophecies of doom at her birth too portentous, her rivalry with her male twin too familiar, and it becomes increasingly irritating that she (an obscure craftsman's daughter) just happens to be right next to the centre of almost every big event in the conquest of Mexico (even some that didn't happen).
What do You think about Goldsmith's Daughter (2008)?
How often do you run across a book set in the Aztec empire in YA?
—chersee
Another female empowering book, but not as good as "I am Apache."
—jennypenny
