“Graciela Limón’s tale is downright hypnotic … There are some extraordinary descriptions of pre-Colombian culture … And always there’s the pounding in the language … Compelling.”
—Washington Post Book World
“Limón’s novel presents the account of Huitzitzilin, or ‘Hummingbird,’ a Mexica noblewoman present and outraged at the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlán … Highly readable … Limón tells a good story and keeps alive, in a fictional setting, interest in this epic and doomed period of Latin American colonial history.”
—Choice