A review by curlymango
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.5

A solid spooky icky story! I’m a bad, slow reader so this is probably a me problem: it felt like there was a lot of scene-setting but much less character-setting, as in they just kind of popped up out of nowhere in a chapter (e.g. Noemí looked up and ___ was standing in the doorway). In general, I think there could have been less “telling” more “showing.” To the extent that written media allows, that is.

I really enjoyed the concept of people as a fungal super organism. That was definitely very spooky icky. Also the aphrodisiac potion was straight up terrifying.