A review by marymayne
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

2.0

When faced with rich topics such as playing god, human experimentation, the "cost" of scientific progress, eugenics, what it means to be human, the exploitation of those we see as lesser than, and the perception of (a strongly religious) society regarding both the act of creating human/animal hybrids and the hybrids themselves - this book does a great job of noting that these themes are present, then promptly skimming over them. Even the romance

/ love triangle

is shallow and unexplored.

There was some beautiful imagery describing the natural environment and the characters (not the hybrids sadly), but not enough to redeem this book.