A review by snowman
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

TW:SUICIDE
Loved the start of the story it dives into how different people deals with grief and the lost of someone they loved.  I really like how Magos think she'snot actually grieving but us the reader can clearly see her desperation for keeping the idea of her son alive how she fought so hard for it, to the point of hurting M in vein of making him more Santiago like, i also love/hate (yup complicated relation) how at the end she did accept that eme was a seperate person that he is not Santiago, even though it was after she did a-in my opinion- mean art piece infront of him that triggered him enough to run away and set free. Now for joe I love how his grief is portrayed at the start he doesn'tknow what to feel when to feel he just feels everything, i love how he fought for M to stay as M but there is a hidden part of him that wants him as Santiagoeven to the end when he kept pushing M to act like a nkrmal human, believingnowishing and hoping his hunger will eb away but alas. M or Eme breaks my heart soecially in the last chapter where we see his inner thoughts his battle how he really tries to hide how he trully feel and how he try so hard to keep his promisses and to be normal to become what his parents want forget himself and become santiago at the end he does chooses himself and I love that but I really think that it would have made more sense for how the book was progressing if he commited s-uicide driven mad by his hunger and the fighting with it the want to please his father so match and fit in societal rules.
Overall I really liked the book specially since it's a debute novel some parts of it were rushed(M decision to run away, Magos being nice and accepting Eme to name a few) but the writing was great made it easy to read through the book
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