Why I chose this book

I chose the novel Zorro by Isable Alende because it looked like a mature version of a story many associate with lassos, masks, and a 'z' slashed into various objects. For this reason it intruigued my on a niggling childish level, but I was also hesitant to pick it up. It was passed onto my by a friend who lives in France, who I admire for her intelligence and worldly view on books. SO I decided that I couldn't hurt myself by trying to rub up on some of that knowledge. The best books are the ones which one is pursuaded hesitnaly into, I've found. It's not as though it's a bad story either. The origins of Zorro, our hereo happen to be Spanish AND Native American, so it''s interesting to seethe 2 sides clash. I'm liking it so far too, gobbling up the words.