Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Back when there were still witches

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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While I really enjoyed a few of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novels, I was hesitant about this one. While her release before this one, The Seventh Veil of Salome, should have been right up my alley, I ended up giving up on it fairly early. It also had a bit of a dual/multi timeline and narrator thing going on and I just ended up not quite being as interested in some of them to keep reading. When I saw this one also involved multiple time lines, I […]

B*Witched

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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CBR Bingo: ‘B’ Horror isn’t my usual genre, but it’s October, and I really enjoyed one of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s previous novels (Mexican Gothic), so I figured I would give her latest release, The Bewitching, a try. This is a novel about witches, told over three timelines. Minerva, in 1998, is a Mexican grad student studying horror literature in New England. Her thesis is on her favourite author, Beatrice “Betty” Tremblay, who attended the same college in the 1930s. Minerva gains access to papers via a friend of […]

A new spin on an old idea

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia

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Moreno Garcia does an amazing job setting the right mood in this newer gothic tale. Set in Mexico in the 1950’s, you forget that the world is more modern than what Noemi Taboada experiences. Having grown up in Mexico City to an affluent family, Noemi’s life is more about finding a worthy suitor and getting married than education or developing skills to join the workforce. Despite this, Noemi is a confident, charming, smart woman who would like to study at the University. While she enjoys […]

Bewitched

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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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 […]

Bewitching

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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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 […]

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

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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 […]



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