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A review by lostlenore_
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
5.0
Reminiscent of Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Jackson's "Haunting of Hill House" and Poe's "The Oval Portrait" and the "Fall of the House of Usher," Mexican Gothic is bound to sweep you off your feet and pull you with its...roots!
What a blast I had reading this one! A grotesquely dark, twisted, horrific tale of lust and the forbidden blossoming in a Mexican estate run by a British family. This is a true Gothic novel through and through: there's an unreliable narrator and in our case, it's a she, Noemie, who also tends to think and feel more than the average 1950s' woman, there's a haunted mansion, there's violence and death, lots and lots of sexual tension and flirting between taboos and all this is paired with amazing visual imagery, lots of whimsical writing and dream sequences that read just SO DAMN GOOD!
I wanted to read this book for SO LONG, and I chose to listen to it on Audible;even if at first the narrator's voice sounded a bit robotic, her mellow and somber tone tied in perfectly with the vibes of Moreno-Garcia's book! I will definitely buy a physical copy and reread this one!
What a blast I had reading this one! A grotesquely dark, twisted, horrific tale of lust and the forbidden blossoming in a Mexican estate run by a British family. This is a true Gothic novel through and through: there's an unreliable narrator and in our case, it's a she, Noemie, who also tends to think and feel more than the average 1950s' woman, there's a haunted mansion, there's violence and death, lots and lots of sexual tension and flirting between taboos and all this is paired with amazing visual imagery, lots of whimsical writing and dream sequences that read just SO DAMN GOOD!
I wanted to read this book for SO LONG, and I chose to listen to it on Audible;even if at first the narrator's voice sounded a bit robotic, her mellow and somber tone tied in perfectly with the vibes of Moreno-Garcia's book! I will definitely buy a physical copy and reread this one!