When I opened up my preorder I remember thinking, will I like this one? It took me less than a paragraph to go, oh that’s why I love Outlander. These books feel like home in such a way that I can’t possibly describe. Speaking of description, no one does it better than Diana Gabaldon. And, while there was no blue light, my heart did stop and start back up again many times through reading it. “Remember me.” How could I ever forget?

This book quite surprised me. I don’t know what I expected it to be but it wasn’t that and I quite enjoyed it. I now have a name for a genre I love to read but had nearly forgotten about, romantic gothic. There was this one Scooby Doo book like this I used to read every day as a kid but it took Mexican Gothic to make me remember it.

It wasn’t quite a five star for me but it was a solid four. In the middle-end I was horrified and thrilled that I was horrified by what I was reading. Delightfully creepy. “Open your eyes”.

Wow. I picked this up off of a website claiming I would like it if I liked Taylor Swift’s two latest albums. But I gotta be honest, I didn’t think I would like it. And I didn’t. I loved it beyond measure, loved it more than I could ever describe.

I have to explain: I don’t typically like contemporary romance except in weirdly specific circumstances. But this book man.

So incredibly real. I could not put it down, yet reading it was so calming. It was beautiful and relatable and just so damn real I can’t believe it. Wonderful, poetic, beautiful. And yet it made me laugh. It talked about hard topics, too. In a good way. It was exactly what I needed exactly when I needed it. It was synchronicity.

I’ll leave you with what I think is my favourite quote from it, though it was very hard to choose. Possible spoilers, so I’d you haven’t read it yet maybe avoid the quote.

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“And I can’t say that sock quality was ever something I was looking for in a girl, but here it is, and that’s how I feel, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.”

I am obsessed with this book. So obsessed I put off final essays to read it. It really had everything. It was creepy, wonderful, enthralling. And THE ENDING. Amazing. A work of art, pure and simple. I can’t tell you how glad I am to have read this book. I am so happy that it was so good right from the beginning, from that very first sentence that grabs you and digs it’s hooks into you. So many books are bad at the beginning and great at the end but this was great all the way through. Nothing is as you expect it.

“After all, this is a house full of Chronics. The next tragedy is already long overdue.”