A review by rene_
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

4.0

[4.5] ahhh this book was extremely ugly. It follows Alejandra and the maternal generational curse that haunts the first born mothers of the entire line. The creature creeps into the mothers’ minds (and times, their first born daughters), manifesting as a physical being only seen by them, filling them with depression and pain from their situations, ending with the creature feeding on the mothers’ fears and at the end of their lives, their physical bodies. My thoughts throughout the entire book was just if the women were able to leave their goddamn husbands and without society taunting them for it, the curse could’ve gone away so much sooner. With La Llorona, though im sure is a real myth passed amongst Mexican history, I kind of imagined it as depression and anxiety of not being enough for your families. We were also able to see some of the stigmas women loved through from like the 1800s to the 2000s and I think that’s a neat part of this book :) .5 off because I didn’t cry reading the book