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Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
DISCLAIMER: as I did not like Velvet Was the Night my review will be, alas, a negative one. If you are a fan of SMG or you happen to love this novel, congratulazioni. Please, don’t @ me just because I don’t feel the same way as you do, I get it, YMMV. If you are […]
1970s, 2 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, drama, female authors, latin america, latin american, latinx author, mexican, MEXICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, Mexico, missing girls, missing persons, My reviews, MYSTERY, Noir, Not Like Other Girls, published in 2021, read in 2021, reading, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, slow pacing, SUSPENSE, THRILLER, Velvet was the Night -
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
As riveting as watching paint dry. I wasn’t planning on reading this as I wasn’t all that enthused by Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow. But, as I don’t like to write off authors on the basis of just one book & earlier this week I was in the mood for a gothic-kind-of-read, well, […]
1980s, 2.5 STARS, 20th century, 3rd pov, Adult, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, drama, FANTASY, female authors, ghosts/spirits, GOTHIC, haunted house, hauntings, HISTORICAL FICTION, HORROR, illness, incest, latinx author, manor/big house, mexican, MEXICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR, Mexican Gothic, Mexico, My reviews, published in 2020, read in 2021, reading, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, slow pacing -
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia — book review
In spite of the beautiful attention that Gods of Jade and Shadow pays to the function of myths and deities in our everyday lives…this turned out to be an unexpectedly juvenile read… The swift storytelling found in Gods of Jade and Shadow might not appeal to those readers who prefer slower and more in depth […]
1920s, 2.5 STARS, 20th century, 3rd pov, Adult, adventure, Canadian Mexican author, FANTASY, female authors, FOLKLORE, gods, Gods of Jade and Shadow, HISTORICAL FICTION, Hyped new releases, MAGICAL REALISM, Mexico, myths, published in 2019, READ IN 2019, RETELLINGS, ROMANCE, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, why the hype, YOUNG ADULT
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