A review by mmccombs
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I absolutely loved this book! I would not say this is really horror, which might be disappointing if you’re expecting that, it is more dark, quiet literary fiction with slightly more blood and freaky little monsters than you’d normally find. This book beautifully layered themes of grief, belonging, and what happens when we force people to be something they are not. I liked that we got multiple different POVs to fully understand how they each dealt with the grief of losing a child (and growing in that child’s shadow),a mix of sorrow and madness and nothing at all. It was a creative spin on a fairly straightforward narrative, I really enjoyed it.
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