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Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
What a reprehensible little family. Noemi Toboada <3 i luv u <3 I wish you'd never met them.
Very interesting concept, surprisingly thoughtfully feminist and intersectional. Underneath themind-controlling, life-extending, consciousness-transferring mushrooms is a story about the use and abuse of female, non-white, and poor bodies at the hands of a colonial power and men who never hear or internalize the word "no." Is it ground-breaking or particularly deep? No. But I was glad that the people who mattered (Catalina and Noemi) made it out alive and triumphant and that Agnes was freed. I also appreciated that, at the end of the day, Catalina and Noemi saved themselves/each other, instead of being saved by a man.
Also, learned a new word: lugubrious = adj. looking or sounding sad and dismal. It played in my head on a loop for three days after I read it. Very fun word to say, one might even say too fun to mean "sad".
Weakest part of the book for me was the romance between Francis and Noemi, wish they just ended as friends. Though I guess the novel itself tells us that we never know what the future has in store for them, so they may very well breakup .
Very interesting concept, surprisingly thoughtfully feminist and intersectional. Underneath the
Also, learned a new word: lugubrious = adj. looking or sounding sad and dismal. It played in my head on a loop for three days after I read it. Very fun word to say, one might even say too fun to mean "sad".
Weakest part of the book for me was the romance between Francis and Noemi
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Miscarriage, Vomit, Medical content, Colonisation, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Infertility, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War