How much this is all hurting Langdon, our other MC.Īt this point, I’d like to remind you that they are surrounded by hybrid monsters. A lot of the book centers around what a bad match this is, how everyone knows it’s a bad match, and how Carlota’s father wants this match to work because Eduardo is rich. She does fall for and has a full-on relationship with another man named Eduardo Lizalde. This wouldn’t have bothered me that much, since it’s unrequited love if so damn much of the book hadn’t been devoted to Carlota wanting to fall in love! Worse, there was a gross age difference between Carlota and the man in love with her. One huge expectation is that the love interest is going to end up with the main character. I don’t adore that, not being a huge romance fan, but it fits in so well normally that it’s hard to argue with it.īut the romance genre has certain expectations.

All of Moreno-Garcia’s books have that romantic element. The book is supposed to be a sci-fi thriller and a romance. It tried to be two things and didn’t manage either. I devoured the lush description of the jungle, just like I always love the descriptions in Moreno-Garcia’s work. Just like I always fall in love with the main characters. I fell in love with our main character, Carlota, right away. Moreno-Garcia has a knack for writing endings that aren’t the anticipated happy ending but are so much more satisfying than that ending would have been. You can check out my review of Mexican Gothic here, Velvet Was The Night here, or God of Jade and Shadow here. Because I’ve read other books by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and I loved them.

Moreau, I’m going to say some things that will make certain parts of the ending fairly clear. Spoiler warning: While I’m not going to directly spoil the ending of The Daughter of Dr.

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