A review by strange
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

I loved a lot of this book's ideas, and really enjoyed the writing as I did with Moreno-Garcia's other books, but the execution just didn't connect with me. Characters that I feel I should have liked felt impossible to connect to, and the pacing (specifically the division between the first two thirds and last third of the book) could have been much better and really felt jarring and tension-erasing. 
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