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daisywords · 6 months ago

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finally got around to reading Mexican Gothic. It had me hooked and actually followed through (the buildup was good but I was worried the ending/revelation was going to fall flat. it held up though.) Anyway my take is that it felt like if a really good movie was a book. Like the story operated more on movie logic than book logic if that makes any sense. (not a criticism, just an observation.) Overall well done and well paced. Predictable enough to be coherent but mysterious enough to be compelling. There were a couple of elements that seemed a little clumsy to me, but forgivable in service of the whole. Would recommend if you want to read a book that feels like watching Crimson Peak or something

#Mexican Gothic #daisyreads #I think a movie adaptation could be incredible if done right #it saved me in a way because the last book I read was kind of a drag to get through and this one I crashed through in a couple days #Catalina was a more plot device than character but that's kind of hard to avoid given the nature of the story #and I could tell there was a real effort to characterize her so it's forgiven #also something I really liked about it was how I honestly had no idea if it was going to end well or not #they just felt so capital-D Doomed ///////////////spoiler////////////vv #that it felt like incredible mercy when all three of them actually made it out. as opposed to just the narrative #oug a little sensational—that's the genre lol—but at it's heart I think I liked how it dealt with the Themes #Noemí really said ''fix him? I'm going to undoom him from the narrative if it kills us all'' and good for her

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