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A review by v171
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Man, I don't know. I just didn't like it. Looking at it as a piece of literature outside of genre, the characters were boring and had poor development. The story wasn't very captivating and was poorly paced. The romance felt forced and unnatural. However my primary disappointment was that, as a horror novel, it was appallingly not scary, horrific, or tense. Every beat felt so formulaic and predictable that I never felt the intensity or urgency of the story. I felt bored throughout the whole story, and at the end I felt just ambivalent about the characters as I did in the beginning. I'm no horror connoisseur because I'm pretty easily scared. But this was a miss all around.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Infertility, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence