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Monstrilio
by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Monstrilio is such a fascinating and bizarre book. It's a very nuanced perspective on how grief is dealt with, how it affects the people involved, both in response to the death itself and in response to how each person is dealing with their grief.
The POVs of Magos and Lena went from strength to strength. I sympathised with Magos but questioned some of her choices/comments. Then we move to Lena's POV and I really liked those chapters. I think Lena was my favourite character. Her POV kind of confirmed some of my feelings towards Magos and highlighted her flaws a bit more. Throughout Lena's POV I felt so much for M, the way Magos and Joseph were trying to deal with him and alter his behaviour, but I could also see how difficult M must have been to manage.
The momentum takes a bit of a dip with Joseph's POV, in my opinion, but the I liked the introduction of Uncle Luke, he was a nice character to have going into M's POV. Like Joseph's POV, I found M's to be slower than the POVs of Magos and Lena, but it gave some much needed insight into M's behaviour and how he was dealing with being created. The writing style also changes with M's POV, becoming quite short and choppy, which seems to align more with M's character.
The POVs are nicely paced for the most part and then towards the end of the first two POVs there is a noticeable time jump which does make sense and I appreciate that otherwise the story could have been substantially slowed down. I don't particularly agree with this book being categorised as horror, although, I can see why it has been.
The POVs of Magos and Lena went from strength to strength. I sympathised with Magos but questioned some of her choices/comments. Then we move to Lena's POV and I really liked those chapters. I think Lena was my favourite character. Her POV kind of confirmed some of my feelings towards Magos and highlighted her flaws a bit more. Throughout Lena's POV I felt so much for M, the way Magos and Joseph were trying to deal with him and alter his behaviour, but I could also see how difficult M must have been to manage.
The momentum takes a bit of a dip with Joseph's POV, in my opinion, but the I liked the introduction of Uncle Luke, he was a nice character to have going into M's POV. Like Joseph's POV, I found M's to be slower than the POVs of Magos and Lena, but it gave some much needed insight into M's behaviour and how he was dealing with being created. The writing style also changes with M's POV, becoming quite short and choppy, which seems to align more with M's character.
The POVs are nicely paced for the most part and then towards the end of the first two POVs there is a noticeable time jump which does make sense and I appreciate that otherwise the story could have been substantially slowed down. I don't particularly agree with this book being categorised as horror, although, I can see why it has been.