The Haunting of Alejandra

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.

This was a lot of heavy topics in a spooky shell. I think the author handled the topics really well and the narrator was amazing

It was well written, but also really sad because our protagonist is dealing with some really hard depression and suicidal thoughts. This leans more into the side of literary horror, and I thought it was so well done.