Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Mexican Gothic (Hardcover, 2020, Quercus)
Hardcover, 320 pages
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2020 by Quercus.
This book had a slooooow beginning, but when it picked up - it really picked up.
I'm not sure what to say about this book. It's very good, though more of a 3.5er for me personally. I liked all the characters. I even liked the romance. The conclusion was excellently written. I think I'm just not too into Gothic horror, and this is a weird book to find that out on. But it's excellently written, with memorable characters, a well-paced plot, and a viciously lovely ending.
I highly recommend it for those who find fascination in lurid tales of ancient families, horrible murder-suicides, mysterious incest, and the other staples of Gothic literature that, while well-deployed here, kinda don't do it for me, personally.
Still, good book. No argument there.
This was pretty good. The writing is sound and the characters are colorful. It is not, however, as ground-breaking as I was led to believe. It also has very little to do with traditional Gothic novels, so there’s that.
My assumption is that the proliferation of five-star reviews are from readers who have never cracked Lovecraft or Du Maurier before, and good for them for trying this on for size. If you have, then the underlying ideas and characters will be instantly recognizable. This isn’t a bad thing; those are great models. But it seems that, just as each generation thinks it discovered sex, each generation thinks it is the first to read (or even write) Rebecca.
i meant it when i said white people are the disease
What a vivid book, so dark and gorgeously detailed. The best modern gothic horror I’ve read or watched, hands down. I loved it.
