A review by unicornsbookshelf
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

 
I see everyone say how the first 100 pages nearly made them DNF this book but it gets better later and I can't relate because to me the last 30% is where the book has lost me. I just feel we as a society are past having to give everything sexual undertones to make it scarier and using incest as shock value. It's a trope I've seen in media so many times and it perfectly ruined the haunted, creepy atmosphere of this book. I did love the writing and the big majority of the book. I loved Naomi as a character (though I still wished her romantic interest would be the doctor from the village, not Francis) but the explanation and ending turned me off horribly. 
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