If you are a lover of Quentin Tarantino , of his cinema dripping with blood and paradoxical situations, then “Tequila bang bang” (Mondadori, 2022, pp. 480, also e-book), a new novel by Veronica Pivetti , is right for you.
The book, in fact, is a concentrate of massacres, crushed brains, eyes stabbed with heels 13, explosions, killings, deadly traps, fried bugs to munch on like chips, cigars stuffed with drugs, dumb killers, centenarian carrion, eighty-year-olds ultrasexcy, clumsy traitors , in a splatter crescendo that the good Quentin envies.
Therefore, a few lines of the plot are enough to realize that we are far from any real terrain and that Veronica Pivetti wants us to enter the territory of the wildest fantasy with feet together and without any seat belt, just as she loves to do with her Tarantino films.
The protagonists of this Mexican raid by the good Milanese actress / writer are three very particular women : the protagonist, Jole, her ex-husband who changed sex happily becoming Corinna, and her mother. In short, the naive, the beautiful became the beautiful and the wicked. The latter, a degenerate parent, cold and very chic business woman, traffics with Mexican narcos, until the unsuspecting Jole, a former Crazy Horse dancer, while her mother is in Mexico, finds a headless corpse in her apartment and the ex husband - now Corinna - helps her get rid of it. In doing so, they both end up in the clutches of criminals, who kidnap them and take them to Mexico City, by the boss of the bosses Xavier, known as “la Tumba”, secret lover of the elderly mother. From that moment Veronica Pivetti presses the accelerator pedal and it rains bullets , stabs, shots, explosions , warehouses full of drugs collapse while the drug itself disappears and everyone dies like flies. And in this uproar our heroines manage to escape, increasingly tattered and bleeding in their designer clothes and Louboutin heels 13, to end up in the vengeful jaws of increasingly ferocious and violent criminal gangs.
In short, a story not for all tastes and not for all times of the year. Certainly suitable for relaxing on a beach, in the mountains or when you want to simply disconnect from reality, a reality that is sometimes much more raw than a literary tequila bang bang.
Under these conditions, the Grand Guignolesco chaos created by the author has an unexpected effect: it puts you in a good mood. And it is more than many books by much more celebrated and acclaimed authors do.