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A review by starryeyedenigma
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4.0
This book was a part of the Spooky read October month, but I managed to finish it only in the first week of Nov.
The story definitely has all the spooks - the gothic setting of the manor at High Place, eerie characters with the creepy Howard Doyle, the handsome and unsettling Virgil Doyle, the timid Francis Doyle and the stern and uptight Frances Doyle. It definitely isnt an easy task for our protagonist Noemi to figure out what is haunting her sister and how to solve it.
There are a lot of themes that I'm afraid of as a person that the author uses to scare her readers with - both psychological such as claustrophobia and insanity as well as paranormal such as ghosts.
I listened to the audio book for this and I think my only problem was the pacing of the plot. I found it a little slow for my liking. But maybe that's how gothic horror novels are supposed to be?
It felt very similar to the Turn of the screw on which the Netflix Haunting of Bly Manor is based.
The story definitely has all the spooks - the gothic setting of the manor at High Place, eerie characters with the creepy Howard Doyle, the handsome and unsettling Virgil Doyle, the timid Francis Doyle and the stern and uptight Frances Doyle. It definitely isnt an easy task for our protagonist Noemi to figure out what is haunting her sister and how to solve it.
There are a lot of themes that I'm afraid of as a person that the author uses to scare her readers with - both psychological such as claustrophobia and insanity as well as paranormal such as ghosts.
I listened to the audio book for this and I think my only problem was the pacing of the plot. I found it a little slow for my liking. But maybe that's how gothic horror novels are supposed to be?
It felt very similar to the Turn of the screw on which the Netflix Haunting of Bly Manor is based.