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A review by rachachisaur
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Did not finish book. Stopped at 73%.
The title feels like a bait and switch, considering there was nothing about this book to situate it in Mexican culture. You could have swapped out the main character’s ethnicity and the country it’s set in without impacting the story at all. Which is fine unless you’ve made that ethnicity part of the title.
I made it 3/4 through this book and got just past the big reveal and couldn’t force myself to go any further. The pacing is slow, the creepiness of the house is downplayed by how little Noemi explores or interacts with it, and the cast of characters have very tropey, limited personalities.
For someone who came to make sure her cousin was safe, Noemi interacts with her barely at all and doesn’t seem very concerned about what’s going on.
The pacing is slow and our “strong” female lead repeatedly lets herself get talked out of doing anything effective with very little effort required. The root cause of all the creepiness is heavy-handedly obvious from the very beginning and therefore not much of a mystery to keep you invested.
I also hate gothic horror that revolves around SA as it’s main running theme, so even if everything else had been well done I probably would have DNF’d either way.
I made it 3/4 through this book and got just past the big reveal and couldn’t force myself to go any further. The pacing is slow, the creepiness of the house is downplayed by how little Noemi explores or interacts with it, and the cast of characters have very tropey, limited personalities.
For someone who came to make sure her cousin was safe, Noemi interacts with her barely at all and doesn’t seem very concerned about what’s going on.
The pacing is slow and our “strong” female lead repeatedly lets herself get talked out of doing anything effective with very little effort required. The root cause of all the creepiness is heavy-handedly obvious from the very beginning and therefore not much of a mystery to keep you invested.
I also hate gothic horror that revolves around SA as it’s main running theme, so even if everything else had been well done I probably would have DNF’d either way.