Pairs well with: Red Wine and the Halloween candy you ‘got for trick or treaters’
I’d seen a lot of people posting about enjoying Mexican Gothic, and then Kelly Ripa posted about it so I was sold. I can only watch Hocus Pocus so many times (according to my husband) to get into the holiday spirit this year so this book was perfect. The author does a great job of balancing the story and character development with the creepiness factor. I won’t lie, when I was walking upstairs to bed after reading I may have turned on every light along the way, but it was a great story.
The story is set in 1950’s Mexico following Noemí. Her cousin married a man quickly and left Mexico City to live at his family home and the family has hardly heard from her until she starts sending some concerning letters. Noemí makes a deal with her dad to go visit and check on her cousin, but when she gets there she realizes there’s something very abnormal about her in laws and their family home.