The Haunting of Alejandra

The Haunting of Alejandra

2023 • 257 pages

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Average rating4.5

15

DNF'ed at 28%.

I can appreciate the themes and elements (intergenerational trauma among women, particularly Latinas, and how it manifests in figures of darkness like La Llorona), but the execution just doesn't work for me. The prose is flat and repetitive, the characters are overdetermined, and there's no real sense of mystery or suspense. For me, it takes more than a few moments of gore to qualify as a horror novel.