A review by mistysbookspace
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

3.0

This book was so far out of my comfort zone but I've been wanting to read more horror so I decided to give it a go because at the time I was part of a group that read horror novels and this was one of the books picked one month. 

Honestly I don't really know how to review this book. I don't know what to say. I will say to take my review with a grain of salt and would highly highly recommend you read other reviews since I'm new to this genre. As I said this was out of my comfort zone 1 because it is horror and 2 because it is literary fiction. Two genres I don't tend to read that much or at all really especially when it comes to Literary Fiction.
 
This is the author debut novel and I have to say I enjoyed his writing. He was able to pull me in despite me having no idea what to think of it. We get 4 different POVs and with each POV we got the less immersed I became. The first POV was the best in my opinion. This is a story about grief and how everyone handles it in different ways and at different times. Had I personally been able to understand all the metaphors and such I could have enjoyed it so much more. I just think me and literary fiction aren't meant for each other because the couple of times I've read a book labeled literary I end up feeling stupid.