A review by ktrain3900
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

I can't recall the last time I loved a book so much that I stayed up until 2 am to finish it, nor the last time I actually read all of the supplemental materials at the end. This hit all the right notes for me: a bright, feisty heroine, a creepy old house (with an old cemetery!), weirdly intriguing characters, delightful folk-historic and sciency details, dreamscapes, family histories, vivid imagery, and so on. The movement between the real world of the setting and the nightmares and hallucinations felt seamless, rich with sounds and smells and horrifying sights. It's been a long time since a book has captivated me so wholly as this one did. If you love the gothic, the spooky, the dark and morbid, the haunted, the weird, the chilling, etc., you will love this book.