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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Start date: January 15, 2021

Finish date: February 15, 2021

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Jun 21, 2020 Suzanne rated it it was amazing

Wow! What a dark, intriguing, grotesquerie of a novel. I haven't read anything by Silvia Moreno-Garcia before (Gods of Jade and Shadow has been on my TBR list for a while but I haven't read it), so I did not know what to expect. The first half of the book did an excellent job evoking classics like Rebecca and Jane Eyre -- so much so, in fact, I felt like I was reading a much "older" book instead of one coming out in 2020. Evoking those older classics possibly set me up to expect a purely psychol ...more

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Jun 28, 2020 Alisa rated it liked it

3.5 stars. Slow moving, atmospheric gothic mystery that takes a really bizarre, psychedelic turn about 2/3 through.

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Oct 26, 2021 Anne rated it liked it

This was a solid 3 stars for me, but I probably would have rated the book higher if I hadn’t listened to the audio version. The narrator used the same intonation for every sentence, except when there was dialogue. When the main character spoke or when there was no dialogue at all, the narrator sounded like a cross between an artificial intelligence voice and an investigative reporter from a local news station. Very annoying.

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