Silvia Moreno-Garcia: The Bewitching
Damn this was good!
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f6459221-e9b4-4326-8f29-ba2dcf6cd825
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@spideymang @Fando no sé por qué pero la imagen cyberpunkosa me hizo pensar en la novela #CertainDarkThings de #SilviaMorenoGarcia
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120 Murders edited by Nick Mamatas: 📚 49/2025: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Favorites by Veronica Schanoes, Alex Jennings, Brian Francis Slattery, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Cyan Katz. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/08/30/120-murders-edited-by-nick-mamatas
#AlexJennings #BrianFrancisSlattery #CyanKatz #NickMamatas #SilviaMorenoGarcia #VeronicaSchanoes #Books #Photos
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La próxima semana sale la nueva novela de una de mis autoras mexicanas favoritas (diría que es mi favorita, pero no quiero equivocarme). Si no le han leído, se están perdiendo de varias joyas.
#SilviaMorenoGarcia #TheBewitching #Books #Bookstodon #Libros #Horror
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220458657-the-bewitching
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Check out my review of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's upcoming novel The Bewitching. I am so amped to add a physical copy to my collection! #netgalley #ARC #SilviaMorenoGarcia #TheBewitching #horrorsky #booksky📚💙 #bookstodon #bookstagram #bookreview #gothic
https://strangersights.com/the-bewitching-by-silvia-moreno-garcia/
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My current read. And I just can’t get enough. @silviamg.bsky.social is a genius, this book is so evocative and lush and downright creepy. #BookSky📚💙 #books #silviamorenogarcia
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‘Mayan M.C.’s Debra Moore Muñoz Developing Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Novel ‘The Daughter of Doctor Moreau’ For TV
#Books #News #DebraMooreMuñoz #KaceyMusgraves #SilviaMorenoGarcia #TheDaughterofDoctorMoreau #USG -
The Drowning House
June 13, 2024THE DROWNING HOUSE rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.
When not reading THE DROWNING HOUSE (Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks, July 23, 2024), I felt myself being lured back onto the island setting, almost as if it were a waking dream. Cherie Priest has a way of creating an atmosphere that carves out permanent space in your consciousness. I can transport myself instantly to the Okefenokee swamp setting of THE TOLL (Tor/Macmillan, 2019), where you have to be very careful which highway bridge you drive across. There is something Flannery O’Connor about Priest’s writing, and I also get some Shirley Jackson vibes.
Thanks to Edelweiss Plus Above the Treeline and Sourcebooks for sending this book to me for review consideration. All opinions are my own.
What’s better than a haunted house? Two haunted houses on a remote island off the coast of Washington, one of which washed up on the beach next to the other one after being magically banished into the ocean 80 years ago. If you can resist that scenario, you clearly are not as warped as I am. THE DROWNING HOUSE boasts these delights:
- estranged, weird, elderly sisters (one of whom is dead and her body missing),
- three young people in an old love triangle (one of whom, Simon, is missing and may or may not be dead),
- a super-scary ghost and several really disturbing ones (who are dead but need to be a lot deader),
- a machine that makes calls to the Dark Side, very steampunk.
The super-scary ghost was the reason the house was consigned to the waves in the first place and he is trying to get his hands on this machine. How is he still alive in any form after 80 years? Pure malice (shiver). The two young people in the love triangle who are neither missing nor dead, Melissa and Leo, are attempting to find their friend Simon, protect the house from the undrowned/undead ghost and figure out what is happening on the island.
Things get pretty gruesome, and the ending is a thrill ride and a half.
It’s also possible, as in THE TOLL, to get stranded and have no escape from this island, so you can add that to the delights list.
Reading in context:
Priest has also written a couple of titles in the Booking Agents paranormal mystery series from Simon & Schuster, GRAVE RESERVATIONS (2022) and FLIGHT RISK (2023), which are very entertaining. I would be delighted to see more titles in this series, but I love Priest’s horror novels too. She has some older work that I haven’t gotten to yet but definitely plan to read, especially the adult novels.
More novels in which characters stay in, or return to, haunted houses because of someone they love, when I am thinking, often audibly, “Get out get out get out!”
MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (love of cousin)
THE SPITE HOUSE by Johnny Compton (love of daughter)
A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES by T. Kingfisher (love of mother)
STARLING HOUSE by Alix E. Harrow (love of brother); my review in blog post dated April 14, 2023What I’m alternately reading and listening to right now:
THE WITCHES OF NEW YORK by Ami McKay (HarperCollins, 2017) which was pressed into my hand by a bookshop owner at Judy Bug’s Books in Columbus, GA, so I bought it, of course. Spot on, Alek!
#CheriePriest #TheDrowningHouse #TheToll #ShirleyJackson #FlanneryOConnor #BookingAgents #FlightRisk #GraveReservations #MexicanGothic #SilviaMorenoGarcia #TheSpiteHouse #JohnnyCompton #AHouseWithGoodBones #TKingfisher #UrsulaVernon #StarlingHouse #AlixEHarrow
#AHouseWithGoodBones #AlixEHarrow #AlixHarrow #BookingAgents #CheriePriest #FlanneryOConnor #FlightRisk #GraveReservations #HauntedHouse #JohnnyCompton #magic #MexicanGothic #ShirleyJackson #SilviaMorenoGarcia #StarlingHouse #TheDrowningHouse #TheSpiteHouse #TheToll #TKingfisher #UrsulaVernon #witches
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Me acabo de dar una vuelta por los ganadores de los #GoodreadsChoiceAwards 2023 y vaya joyas que me encontré. Ya hasta compré 2, los demás están en la lista pendiente de leer
#VampiresOfElNorte #SilverNitrate @isabelcanas #SilviaMorenoGarcía
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September is over and I managed to read all the books on my TBR! Time to take a look back.
The first book was Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Even if my trackrecord with her is a bit mixed, I really loved this book since I could easily identify with the main character. The Noir-plot, setting and mood perfectly hit the spot for me. It was a quick read for me and the first 5-star book of the month and year!
#amreading #books #bookstodon #silviamorenogarcia #untamedshore @bookstodon
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Few things are as purely pleasing as a new stack of book friends. 📚
—Night Sky with Exit Wounds by #OceanVuong
—Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
—The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by #MarianaEnríquez
—White Walls: Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya
—Harrow by Joy Williams
—Future Feeling by Joss Lake
—Never Say You Can't Survive by @charliejane
—Silver Nitrate by #SilviaMorenoGarcia@bookstodon #AmReading #Bookstodon #Bibliophile #BookLovers #ForeverReading
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Almut hat #DieTochterDesDoktorMoreau von #SilviaMorenoGarcia gelesen und rezensiert:
"Ein bekanntes Diktum lautet, jede Generation würde sich einen Textbestand – zumindest in Teilen – neu erschließen und ihn aus ihrer Zeit und ihren Diskursen heraus lesen. Silvia Moreno-Garcia macht mit" Die Tochter des Doktor Moreau" genau dies, behandelt Themen wie Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Gender."
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So weird to be at an #SFF reading at the #Seattle #Library and not recognize anyone!
(Probably I do know at least a few people but they’re either masked or my face-myopia is getting the better of me!)
Excited to see #SilviaMorenoGarcia read from her new book!
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Short #BookReviews: An Early Novel by a Master of Fantasy #SignalToNoise #SilviaMorenoGarcia @Solarisbooks https://deborahjross.blogspot.com/2023/05/short-book-reviews-early-novel-by.html?spref=tw
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Almut hat #DerMexikanischeFluch von #SilviaMorenoGarcia rezensiert:
"... Catalina ist die klassische gefährdete Frau, zu deren Rettung aber nicht ein Mann kommt, sondern ihre Cousine Noemí Taboada. Die selbstbewusste Noemí gerät in ein böses post-koloniales Szenario des Grauens auf dem Anwesen High Place und bekommt es zu tun mit Beinahe-Untoten, Schimmel und einem unheimlichen Pilz. Silvia Moreno-Garcia inszeniert einen sich langsam entwickelnden Alptraum... "
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Holger hat ein frühes Werk von #SilviaMorenoGarcia rezensiert:
#CertainDarkThings funktioniert wie ein Räderwerk, das aus einer Vielzahl von Actionfilmen und Horrorgeschichten bekannt ist. Die Bezüge zum Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Sexismus erreichen bei weitem nicht die Tiefe wie in ihren späteren Büchern. Interessant sind aber manche Figuren, vor allem Domingo und Ana, und die Geschichte liest sich unterhaltsam.
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"I wanted to write a gothic story because it's not generally associated with Latin American writers. There is an almost cliché association with magic realism but we are capable of writing more than that. . . ."
Breaking Boundaries Norm for 'Mexican Gothic' Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia
https://www.cbc.ca/books/gothic-horror-on-canada-reads-breaking-boundaries-is-the-norm-for-mexican-gothic-author-silvia-moreno-garcia-1.6755238 via CBC
Photo: Del Ray, Martin Dee
#MexicanGothic #MexicanGothicBook #MexicanGothicNovel #SilviaMorenoGarcia #GothicLiterature #GothicRomance #GothicHorror #CanadaReads -
Since we've all been talking about how to find and develop interesting characters, I feel like sharing an old craft post about a fun way to think about describing them.
It's about Silvia Moreno-Garcia's (amazing!) CERTAIN DARK THINGS and physical description that is really alive and thrilling.
#WritingCommunity #ReadingLikeAWriter #TheLoft #WritersofMastodon #Bookstodon #WritingCraft #PhysicalDescription #Vampires #SilviaMorenoGarcia #CertainDarkThings
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Okay, that my 3rd #SilviaMorenoGarcia novel in 6 months and she is an utter delight, strongly recommended
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“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words, you embroider narratives, and narratives breed myths, and there is power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”
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“Death speaks all languages”
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“Illusions always wear off”