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A review by futurememory
Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.0
I’m very excited to read the rest of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s backlist. There’s a lot of beauty and emotion in Signal to Noise, but it definitely feels like a debut.
The story is split between two time periods in Mexico City - the late 1980s and 2009, and I almost think that we didn’t get enough time in 2009. Meche is an endlessly fascinating character, at turns unsympathetic, selfish, awkward, and snide. Yet she’s full of depth, witty, hurt, and complicated. Sebastian is equally interesting, as is Daniela (more Daniela and Justice for Daniela).
I had to dock some points because I did feel like the emotional payoff of 2009 was just very rushed. I needed more interaction and more scenes between characters in that timeline. Instead of giving me an emotional wallop, the final events felt contrived and forced to me.
I pretty much loved everything about the 1988 storyline, though. The complicated dance and perilous feelings that come with being a teenager, laced with the actual dangers of being a teenage witch.
Lovely stuff, I have a feeling that her later novels are even more powerful.
The story is split between two time periods in Mexico City - the late 1980s and 2009, and I almost think that we didn’t get enough time in 2009. Meche is an endlessly fascinating character, at turns unsympathetic, selfish, awkward, and snide. Yet she’s full of depth, witty, hurt, and complicated. Sebastian is equally interesting, as is Daniela (more Daniela and Justice for Daniela).
I had to dock some points because I did feel like the emotional payoff of 2009 was just very rushed. I needed more interaction and more scenes between characters in that timeline. Instead of giving me an emotional wallop, the final events felt contrived and forced to me.
I pretty much loved everything about the 1988 storyline, though. The complicated dance and perilous feelings that come with being a teenager, laced with the actual dangers of being a teenage witch.
Lovely stuff, I have a feeling that her later novels are even more powerful.