Book Review: "Mexican Gothic" By Silvia Moreno Garcia

"An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets."

What's a woman like Noemi to do after receiving a frantic letter from her cousin Catalina, begging for salvation from mental illness and or her husband Virgil's mansion.
Visions of blood and doom begin to surface as the house of High Place is full of mysterious, dark, and disturbing visuals.

"It's another dream." "It's the gloom, and the gloom isn't real."
Or is it...

Folks, the whole situation is completely off center and toxic.

Virgil's family is not the norm and there's something to be said for selective grooming and superior and inferior traits when it looks at families such as this but don't take my word for it. Read it!

Look- I can only say it's -In the blood so proceed with caution.

There's a host of mixed weirdness including mushrooms, gloom destruction, ingesting of tinctures, and more but what will blow your darn mind is how it all comes together with a feel of effortlessness.

This is the first of Garcia's 30 distinct works that I've been introduced too but it won't be the last that I read as this was enticing, dramatic, tension riveting beyond words, and explosive and I can't imagine not reading more from this powerful author.

The fact that she portrayed Noemi in a girly-girl design by nature (frilly/lace dresses with red lipstick) yet tough as nails has won me over as she stands up to every horrific encounter with tenacity that's truly captivating.

As a strong feminine I soak up characters and works like this one and I do hope this trend continues forward as we need more of this in today's culture.

That ending was full on -Spectacular-! BOOM!

Thank you to Bibliotheca for this e-read in exchange for this honest review.