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Dark, suspenseful Female Gothic shrouded in Mexican colonialism, family traditions, fairy tales, and the fears, anxieties, and tensions of 1950s womanhood.
Wealthy, witty debutante Noemi Taboada has to leave a masquerade party early, not her favorite thing to do, when she is called home to her father's study and asked to read a desperate, confused letter from her recently married cousin, Catalina. Catalina writes that she is trapped in her new husband's remote family home, High Place, a place sh ...more
Wealthy, witty debutante Noemi Taboada has to leave a masquerade party early, not her favorite thing to do, when she is called home to her father's study and asked to read a desperate, confused letter from her recently married cousin, Catalina. Catalina writes that she is trapped in her new husband's remote family home, High Place, a place sh ...more
Although I really enjoyed this scary horror novel, a few issues keep me from a better rating. 1) I knew too early the cause of the sickness, although not the intricacies of the family's history 2) the use of the F-word (in various grammatical forms) did not ring true for the time period 3) it was too "fantasy" for me.
What I liked: The usual gothic motifs were there, the description of the house and its surrounds created a movie in my head, and the heroine was smart and sassy. ...more
What I liked: The usual gothic motifs were there, the description of the house and its surrounds created a movie in my head, and the heroine was smart and sassy. ...more
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