Book Review:
Mexican Gothic
🍄🍄🍄🍄/5🍄
This is a book I grabbed after some of my regulars, a coworker, and Bookstagram put it on my radar. Is it worth the hype?
There are often times I find overly descriptive writing about scenery and such a but much. But here it works as a plot device. Everything on first glance looks like you’d expect a wealthy Victorian home to look. But then as we look closer through Noemí’s eyes it becomes clear how nothing is what it seems. Moldy books and walls, cracked tiles, layers of dust, peeling paint…possibly a haunted house, strange dreams and a very strange family. Noemí is strong, especially for a young woman in 1950. And she is stubborn and smart and I really liked her.
This isn’t a long book, clocking in at 301 pages but it is a very slow burn for sure. At least for me it was. It’s outside of what I typically read but not completely beyond my interests. The story starts out with lots of setup and twists and then gets freakier and then for about the last 70 pages it becomes almost frantic in its pacing, with good reason.
Trigger warning for some scenes of gore and attempted rape.
A solid read and worth the time.
(Finished August 12, 2021)
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