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The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

49 reviews

amberinpieces's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, Misogyny, Racism, Confinement, Death of parent, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Cursing, and Pregnancy

sophmcgraw's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Mental illness

Moderate: Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, and Blood

Minor: Abortion and Alcohol

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Racism, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Classism, Gore, Alcohol, War, Violence, and Body horror

Minor: Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Vomit, Animal death, and Abortion

jordan_uhden's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Rape, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad 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

3.75

Thanks to PRH Audio for the free copy of this book.

 - If you read REBECCA and wished it was about a literal haunting instead of a psychological one, THE HACIENDA is the book for you.
- The audio version of this book is a tense, visceral experience, with narrators Lee Osorio and Victoria Villarreal infusing the words with urgency and painting vivid images of the terrifying scenes at San Isidro. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Death, Alcohol, Gore, Blood, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, and Infidelity

Moderate: Abortion, Cursing, and Sexual violence

blissofalife's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

The inspirations for this book

Rebecca, Shirley Jackson novels

are obvious throughout but told through a fresh lens and seamlessly combined. The build-up was superb, the climax felt a little too fast. Would still recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Classism, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abortion, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Mental illness, Vomit, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, War, Confinement, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Animal death, and Colonisation

bootsmom3's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Colonisation, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Fatphobia, Cursing, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Gaslighting, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Racism

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion, Rape, and Sexual content

xangemthelibrarian's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This debut book is absolutely incredible! I found the story to be believable and it was so easy to listen to as an audiobook. I adore Beatriz, Andrés, and Paloma. All three of them deserve the world.

There's so much that I want to say about the haunted hacienda. About Rudolfo and Juana and Ana Luisa and the first Doña. The complicated relationships and the tragedies that happened in that house. And how the caste system played into so much of what happened in the book! I want to talk about it and how incredible reading this book was but I don't want to give away any potential spoilers!! 

Just. Read it. It's amazing. And if Cañas writes anything else, I'm reading that too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, War, and Classism

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, and Confinement

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

Really great for the haunted house/afraid of what lurks in the dark vibes. The overall story for me was quite slow to get through until towards the end. 
It is multiple POV. 
The reason the house is haunted was interesting, but it felt pretty slow to get to that point. I loved all the creepiness of it though. It was nice reading a gothic horror that wasn't set against an all white cast. The author also touches on class/classism and colorism/racism a little bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Abandonment, Abortion, Blood, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Racism, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape