Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

114 reviews

sam_i_am's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

mireyadiaz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Blood, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Cannibalism

saminstripes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Blood, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

ska1224's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

everyotherpageorso's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Moreno-Garcia may be the only author to pull off this reveal without it being goofy and actually maintaining the horror element. Her style itself is so lush and rich!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual assault, Xenophobia, and Kidnapping

Minor: Gun violence

sofipitch's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I'd been looking forward to reading this book for a while and it did not disappoint. While this book is obvious in it's tribute to the gothic horror genre it is also widely creative. I thought I was going to predict the source of the hauntings and while I was close to right it took an absolutely wild turn. Every detail in this book is put in and repeated for a reason, so everything lines up and is important to the story that takes place. The historical setting is also so well done that while is book is very much fantasy, the details surrounding it make a lot of sense. The paperback edition comes with a few essays at the end by the author explaining how the English silver mine, the house, the Eugenics mindset, and even the landscape where the story is set is all grounded in reality. This book would pair well with del Toro's "Crimson Peak".

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Cannibalism, and Colonisation

trailmixraisins's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Definitely wouldn't recommend for people who find mushrooms and/or fungi really gross. Otherwise, a well-written gloomy tale of a creepy family in the Mexican mountain side. The romantic subplot was pretty predictable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

erynlasbelin's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

Moderate: Cursing, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

audreyloopy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A good, old-fashioned, spine-tingling, head-scratching, what-the-ever-loving-oh-my-god-what-monstrosity-is-THIS?! bit of gothica. That also happens to point a big old finger at colonialism and eugenics and the inherent racist/classist structures therein and say “whew how effed up is THAT?”

It’s like Charlotte Brontë, Mary Shelley, Alfred Hitchcock, and H.P. Lovecraft got together to play cards, and Shelley and Brontë just kept dunking on the dudes for being misogynist turds the whole time. 

Great book, is what I’m saying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Vomit

Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, and Cannibalism

Minor: Suicide and Kidnapping

emilysquest's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

This book hits every lurid square in Gothic Fiction Bingo, and it’s extremely satisfying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Rape