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Bewitched

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

September 12, 2025 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Bingo row 3 – B In my work circles, there’s a story that goes around sometimes where someone died in the automatic rolling stacks and that’s why the archives/records room has manual rolling stacks with a crank and not a button. Is that a story used to justify cheaper rolling shelving? Maybe, but it seriously happened to someone my friend’s friend knew (which I know makes it sound even more like an urban legend). There is a scene in the Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia where […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, silvia moreno-garcia

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, silvia moreno-garcia ·
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Bewitching

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

September 4, 2025 by wicherwill 3 Comments

BINGO: Diaspora! hot take the horror vibes are stronger with this one, but the issue is that we know the monster is real and therefore are just waiting for the shoe to drop. I was so into Mexican Gothic that I keep picking up Moreno-Garcia’s work, hoping to find the same spark. That being said, I find in general that her writing doesn’t quite grab me, and the plot usually falls a bit flat, so they end up being pretty consistently 3* works. I should also note […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: cbrbingo17, silvia moreno-garcia

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:39 · Genres: Horror · Tags: cbrbingo17, silvia moreno-garcia ·
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A Historical Fantasy, A “Neon-Noir” Horror, and Litfic with Magical Realism

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

April 21, 2025 by Tracy Leave a Comment

Emily’s Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales I loved being back in the world of Emily Wilde, so I had such a warm feeling reading this book, even though the stakes in this book are higher in some ways compared to the first two in the trilogy. In this one, Emily and Wendell go to Wendell’s home realm in Faerie to reclaim the throne and are met with some challenges along the way. Just as we did in the first two books, we get occasional reminders […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: canadian author, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, Heather Fawcett, Louise Heal Kawai, magical realism, silvia moreno-garcia, Sōsuke Natsukawa, translated fiction

Tracy's CBR17 Review No:29 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: canadian author, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, Heather Fawcett, Louise Heal Kawai, magical realism, silvia moreno-garcia, Sōsuke Natsukawa, translated fiction ·
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“Montserrat had three loves. One was horror movies. The other was her car. The third was Tristán.” CBR BINGO – Disco

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

August 28, 2024 by narfna Leave a Comment

Okay, so this rating makes it seem like I wasn’t a huge fan of this book, but I liked it, I really did! It’s been over a month now, and it’s still in my head and it feels good, hasn’t soured, haven’t forgotten it. But I had a bit of a hard time getting through it while reading, and the magic system was a bit too woobly for me. This is fantasy horror book set in Mexico City in the 1990s, following Montserrat, a film […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: 90s, cbr16bingo, film, historical fiction, horror, Mexican horror, Mexico City, narfna, Silver Nitrate, silvia moreno-garcia

narfna's CBR16 Review No:57 · Genres: Horror · Tags: 90s, cbr16bingo, film, historical fiction, horror, Mexican horror, Mexico City, narfna, Silver Nitrate, silvia moreno-garcia ·
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Cutting Room Floor

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

March 14, 2024 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Montserrat is a sound editor at a second-rate Mexican film studio, struggling to stay in the good graces of her sexist boss and living life mostly on her own. Aside from her cancer-stricken sister, her only real company is her childhood friend Tristan, a former soap opera star now resorting to voice-over work to make ends meet. The relationship between the two friends has a lived-in, comfortable feel, though Montserrat’s long-standing crush on Tristan is an unacknowledged open secret between the pair. They’re the kind […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: silvia moreno-garcia

jeverett15's CBR16 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: silvia moreno-garcia ·
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Silver Nitrate: a return to horror

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

March 8, 2024 by donttrustthe_bea 2 Comments

mood music: Luzbel – pasaporte al infierno Reminiscent of Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno Garcia returns to her Lovecraftian roots with Silver Nitrate. Set in Mexico during the early 1990s, the reader follows Montserrat (Momo), an audio engineer, and Tristan, a washed-up telenovela actor, whose chance encounter with a golden-era director leads them down a path of occultism and nazi worship. Shortly after moving into his apartment, Tristan meets his new neighbor, cult horror director Abel Urueta, after accidentally receiving his mail and delivering it to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: #horrornovels, mexican gothic, period fiction, silvia moreno-garcia

donttrustthe_bea's CBR16 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: #horrornovels, mexican gothic, period fiction, silvia moreno-garcia ·
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