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A review by qi_
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
2.75
okay i am 2 exams lighter and ready to rant about literature :D
PROS :
- conceptually this is pretty cool like at face value the idea was pretty cool
- the themes that were featured such as colonization were well discussed and were subtlety
incorporated in the story without needing to spell it out
- i was much more invested in the relationships between characters than the individual characters so
that counts for something aha
- gothic atmosphere
CONS :
- for a large majority of the book it felt like nothing happened. most of the book was spent
following noemà around the house while mildly spooky and weird things happened. i
only held out because i wanted to see what the ending could POSSIBLY BE
- i wasn't necessarily scared. it had the atmosphere but that's pretty much it.
- none of the characters stood out and couldn't really develop any connection to them. noemà fell
into a pretty obvious role of the one we were supposed to root for but like the only really i cared
about her was because the other people was weird. so beyond wanting her to leave the weirdness
i didn't care aH
- overall with all the hype and awards i was just kinda underwhelmed :0
thank you for coming to my ted talk
PROS :
- conceptually this is pretty cool like at face value the idea was pretty cool
- the themes that were featured such as colonization were well discussed and were subtlety
incorporated in the story without needing to spell it out
- i was much more invested in the relationships between characters than the individual characters so
that counts for something aha
- gothic atmosphere
CONS :
- for a large majority of the book it felt like nothing happened. most of the book was spent
following noemà around the house while mildly spooky and weird things happened. i
only held out because i wanted to see what the ending could POSSIBLY BE
- i wasn't necessarily scared. it had the atmosphere but that's pretty much it.
- none of the characters stood out and couldn't really develop any connection to them. noemà fell
into a pretty obvious role of the one we were supposed to root for but like the only really i cared
about her was because the other people was weird. so beyond wanting her to leave the weirdness
i didn't care aH
- overall with all the hype and awards i was just kinda underwhelmed :0
thank you for coming to my ted talk
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Medical content, and Medical trauma