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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
4.5 ⭐
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Thiago’s grief over losing this wife opens him up to an inheritance of a demon passed down through the generations.
What I loved most about this book is that you get to put together the pieces of what is happening through Thiago’s experiences before and after his Wife, Vera’s, death.
I also love this conversational writing style that makes incredibly accurate and interesting observations on the human experience.
Here’s what I think the story is…
The demon hunting Thiago has been attached to this family for generations. We aren’t told why it’s suppressed but I believe it has been and moving into the apartment where the old woman Fidelia has done a ritual. That unleashes the demon into the apartment and sparks all of these events.
What I loved most about this book is that you get to put together the pieces of what is happening through Thiago’s experiences before and after his Wife, Vera’s, death.
I also love this conversational writing style that makes incredibly accurate and interesting observations on the human experience.
Here’s what I think the story is…
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief
Points for lovecraftian cosmic horror. Points lost for excessive dog violence.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
dark
emotional
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
raw grief paired with Mexican horror. your heart will break for the protagonist over and over again. “The maddening part of the last few months wasn’t that you were dead, but that you hadn’t been obliterated from the world. I could still sense you. The days were watermarked with your face. Your absence felt less like nonexistence and more like we were both in the same house but in separate rooms, cut off by the flimsiest door.”
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a very dark and unsettling book but above all, it was a book about grief. Thiago's grief was a painfully living thing and he carried it with him from the first page of this book till the end.
I thought it was a well-written book, and appreciated the romantically tragic portrayal of grief and the sense of loneliness that comes from not being "enough" in your own identity to be accepted in community, but ultimately I found it much more sad than scary, which was a bit of a letdown because I had heard good things about the level of creepiness.
This book started out like a wild fire. I was picking it back up every chance I got. It was so engaging and then just went completely off the rails within the last 15%. I still don’t know wth I even read in that last bit.