Deep Reading; Castille v. The Mexica

I've been wading through "The Conquest of Mexico" by Hugh Thomas.

This is just one of the paragraphs:

"Cuauhtémoc's mother was Tiacapantzin, heiress of Tlatelolco (daughter, that is, of Moquihuix, the last king there).⁴ Until he was grown up, Cuauhtémoc had apparently lived at Ixcateopan, in what is now the state of Guerrero, and which was inhabited by the Chontal Maya. But he seems to have returned to Tenochtitlan some years before the arrival of the Castilians.⁵ he then seems to have become the leader of the people of Tlatelolco at a very young age." ⁶

Every paragraph in the book reads like this. This is on page 451, and I've another 170 to go.

Typically, just when you get the hang of who somebody is, they get sacrificed.

Good book though, and he does warn the reader in the preface what to expect, so I was warned.

However, I'll be avoiding Thomas' "Cuba" which is 1200 pages in very much the same fashion.