The hybrids: The fruits of the doctor’s labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows. Moreau with his experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. “The imagination of Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a thing of wonder, restless and romantic, fearless in the face of genre, embracing the polarities of storytelling-the sleek and the bizarre, wild passions and deep hatreds-with cool equanimity.”- The New York TimesĬarlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. Readers will fall into this tale immediately, enchanted.”- Booklist (starred review) “As alluring as it is unsettling, filled with action romance, and monsters.
From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.
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