The pacing is solid and I like that Barbara gets her chance to be the focus of a serial, but the plot is steeped in 60s white-saviourism. It's written by someone who I think did want to represent the Aztecs well and had a lot of respect for (or at least interest in) the culture, but it's overshadowed by the message being "these people will always be bloodthirsty savages and you can't change that"