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A review by efram
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
5.0
Mexican Gothic's rate of five stars strangely displays my own personal liking for the novel. Despite the slow build-up, the plot appeared engaging, interesting, and quite lovely. I will strongly recommend this to readers with an urge to try a light horror story as this seems to be a good introduction for the genre. For horror readers in seek of more dark and terrifying reads, I’m afraid this novel is not highly in recommendation.
The strengths of the novel are its companion-like writing style - pleasant and delightful, vividly cinematic portrayals and mood-settings, intelligent and parallel characterization - as if the completeness of one can be found within the other, and its brilliant elevation of suspense. While its weaknesses lie on its sluggish plot development making the reading experience seems slightly dull. Also, the ending seems to have more potential if only not contained within the last few pages.
The strengths of the novel are its companion-like writing style - pleasant and delightful, vividly cinematic portrayals and mood-settings, intelligent and parallel characterization - as if the completeness of one can be found within the other, and its brilliant elevation of suspense. While its weaknesses lie on its sluggish plot development making the reading experience seems slightly dull. Also, the ending seems to have more potential if only not contained within the last few pages.