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A review by monetp
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4.0
"It was the house that disfigured the land." ~ [b:Mexican Gothic|53152636|Mexican Gothic|Silvia Moreno-Garcia|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1575673549l/53152636._SX50_SY75_.jpg|73647361]
I'm so grateful that this book lived up to the hype! I read this book in a day...it was so good; I couldn't stop reading. This was just the right amount of horror for me, just enough to creep you out, but not enough to make you paranoid. Noemí is such a badass heroine that I grew to love the more the story progressed. She is everything you could want in a heroine and more. The plot twists kept me guessing until the very last moment, the characters were faced with modern dilemmas, and the darkness of the house feels like its own character.
This novel is a credit to its genre. Noemí is a new kind of gothic horror heroine; she doesn't run away screaming from the bad guys. Instead, she confronts her problems with a feminist spirit I absolutely loved! Her headstrong and resilient nature is what ends up saving her and that's such a positive message to send to female readers. Every time Noemí fought back against Virgil I wanted to jump up and down with happiness!
Another aspect I loved in this novel was the original and dynamic plot construction. Like, most horror novels and movies are predictable but [a:Silvia Moreno-Garcia|4088550|Silvia Moreno-Garcia|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1597118464p2/4088550.jpg] tossed all those annoying tropes away! She presents a wholly unique and intriguing tale that I feel like everyone will interpret differently. While the house does have a sense of evil about it, at the end of the story, I was left with the feeling that what was truly terrifying were the white supremacist characters.
Some of my favorite quotes:
"Books, moonlight, melodrama."
"A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her."
"So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"
I'm so grateful that this book lived up to the hype! I read this book in a day...it was so good; I couldn't stop reading. This was just the right amount of horror for me, just enough to creep you out, but not enough to make you paranoid. Noemí is such a badass heroine that I grew to love the more the story progressed. She is everything you could want in a heroine and more. The plot twists kept me guessing until the very last moment, the characters were faced with modern dilemmas, and the darkness of the house feels like its own character.
This novel is a credit to its genre. Noemí is a new kind of gothic horror heroine; she doesn't run away screaming from the bad guys. Instead, she confronts her problems with a feminist spirit I absolutely loved! Her headstrong and resilient nature is what ends up saving her and that's such a positive message to send to female readers. Every time Noemí fought back against Virgil I wanted to jump up and down with happiness!
Another aspect I loved in this novel was the original and dynamic plot construction. Like, most horror novels and movies are predictable but [a:Silvia Moreno-Garcia|4088550|Silvia Moreno-Garcia|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1597118464p2/4088550.jpg] tossed all those annoying tropes away! She presents a wholly unique and intriguing tale that I feel like everyone will interpret differently. While the house does have a sense of evil about it, at the end of the story, I was left with the feeling that what was truly terrifying were the white supremacist characters.
Some of my favorite quotes:
"Books, moonlight, melodrama."
"A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her."
"So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"