PositiveThe Skinny (UK)\"Although slow to reach any substantial action, You Dreamed of Empires has many of the elements of a good political thriller: twists, turns, hidden motivations and a lot of tension. Not that this makes it an easy book to classify – despite the abundance of tropes, chaos is the moving force in the Mexican author’s psychedelic novel, resulting in an eclectic work of exceptional originality, narrowly rescued from becoming overwhelmingly absurd by an open awareness of its fictionality.\
