Sugar Skull

by Denise Hamilton 2003
ISBN 0-7432-4539-3

Sugar skulls - I knew nothing, but now I do.
The past history of Eve Diamond and Silvio was also new to me.
It is weird reading a series backwards, at times it seems pointless when you know what is going to happen next, but it does fill in the background.
I finished reading this two weeks ago at PPTA Conference in Auckland, and can't remember much about it, but I did learn stuff, and I did enjoy it, and now it is due back to the library. It is much easier to write about books when they are fresh in your head!
I marked some pages but am a bit vague about why now.

1. On page 23, Eve writes "I felt acutely aware of my own dishabille." Is that spelled right? Having now researched it I see that is in fact correct, although it comes from the French déshabillé which is why I was confused, I guess. (I studied French all my time at high school.)
2. On page 47, Eve is avoiding police on a hillside and peeking into a cabana through windows that open onto a bathroom. She sees through the bathroom to a bedroom and observes "a man's black Speedo racing suit crumpled" at the foot of the bed. It strikes me as unlikely that anyone could be so sure about this observation in these circumstances.

New resolutions: to make notes about each book as I finish it, even if I don't have the Internet on tap, and to write pencil notes on pages that I mark.