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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.0

Very evocative and a nice remix. It’s certainly gothic as you’ve read it before but just a few changes makes it satisfyingly different while having some fun mainstays. I found it a bit uneven at times with pacing and dialogue but it was never a slog.

When it’s at its best for both it’s riveting and has great flow. Probably took around 5-6 hours to go through the whole thing.

As always with gothic it has a lot of body horror and loss of agency/autonomy, so CW all of that.