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 | Earrings of Ixtumea by Kim Baccellia | Reviewed by Karen Webb | |
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| Publisher: Virtual Tales
http://www.virtualtales.com ISBN: ebook 0978215729; paperback 0978215710 Genre: Children/Y-A Subgenre: Teen Release date: ebook Dec 2006; paperback Jul 2007 Format: e-book, paperback Pages: ebook 191p.; paperback 206p Price: $4.95 ebook; $12.95 paperback | |||
| 14-year-old Lupe Hernandez believes that the legends her grandmother tells her about the magical land of Ixtumea and its youthful savior are just that - myths. Her beliefs are shattered when her grandmother hands her a pair of antique ruby earrings and she is magically transported to an Ixtumea that is all too real!
Dream balances nightmare in this Mezo-American civilization, where Lupe makes a spiritual journey, comes face to face with living gods, and learns the truth about her parents and her own origins. In a fiction market that is dominated by Celtic mythology and heroes drawn from a northern/western European aesthetic, a book featuring a young Latina heroine and a culture drawn from Native Central American and Hispanic influences is a welcome change. Author Kim Baccellia uses Lupe's spiritual journey to frame some profound thoughts about our view of physical perfection (and how a Latina copes in a blonde world) and how traditional beliefs integrate with those of a faith like Catholicism. (When you're being threatened by Tezcatlipoca, do you pray to the Virgin of Guadalupe or to Ixchel?) Although the story is aimed at the young adult market, it includes content (including drug use, vulgar language and profanities, and disturbing images, including references to human sacrifice and gang rape) that would easily net it a strong PG-13 rating were it a movie rather than a book. What seems to be a very perfunctory editing job leaves the book with a plethora of consistency errors, some gaping plot holes, and a lot of undeveloped potential. Still the basic story is a good one; and the book is a fun read for its imaginativeness, unique atmosphere, and spunky (non-blonde) heroine. | |||
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