Mexican Gothic

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.

Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an …

eBook, 374 pages

English language

Published June 29, 2020 by Random House Worlds.

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ISBN:
978-0-525-62079-2
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Subjects
  • Fiction, gothic
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Mexico, fiction

Reviews

Terrifying in an all too real way

This is objectively the better "fungus manipulates people" book, the more literary one, and I love it but I don't see it being a book that I pick up over and over again to read in the way Kingfisher's could be. Perhaps because the real monsters in the story are the people, and they're a very real sort of monster that we're dealing with in the world today.

That said, it is very much worth at least one read, and is an excellent novel filled with suspense and gothic horror.

reviewed Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Una delusione

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