Moreau, instead it is his 14 year old Carlota Moreau, brought up on an island off Mexico by her scientist father. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a feminist retelling of H.G. Mainly I love (and envy) Morena-Garcia’s incredible imagination and the way she changes genre with each book. I’m trying to resist buying the signed edition of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau with the bright pink spredges It’s perhaps no surprise that I love the art of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo because this cover is very reminiscent of her work. I love the vivid colours and unusual design of her book covers too and have each one sitting on my shelf in hardback. I went back to the incredible Gods of Jade and Shadow and The Beautiful Ones, then was lucky enough to be sent Velvet Was the Night. Since then I’ve become less keen on wallpaper and mushrooms! I also went back to her previous novels- one of the greatest pleasures a bookworm like me can have is to find a new author then find they have a long back catalogue of books to get your teeth into. Of course it also had a gothic mansion, decorated with wallpaper printed with wandering mushrooms. It was a heady mix of fear, desire, and strange happenings, with a feisty heroine with fabulous dress sense. I have been a fan of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s writing since I did the blog tour for her novel Mexican Gothic.
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