A chameleon writer with incredible writing skills

A genre-jumping wizard, one of the most exciting and necessary authors writing today

Moreno-Garcia is a magician able to switch genres with ease

Cements Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s incredible versatility as an amazing writer who moves between genres effortlessly

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s writing is unforgettable

With intelligence, energy, and unexpected tenderness, Silvia Moreno-Garcia takes on Wells’ classic tale of scientific hubris. Carlota, the mad Doctor Moreau’s only child, is a creation more original than anything her father’s cruel experiments could ever conjure. At once playful and deadly serious, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is an irresistible and thoroughly satisfying novel

The brilliant and unstoppable Silvia Moreno-Garcia continues to weave her magic in The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, a smart, sinister fable about social inequality and exploitation, isolation and abuse of power. In her usual fashion, Moreno-Garcia has given us an extraordinary heroine to root for in Carlota, a young woman who can’t know until she’s tested how much power is hers to claim. Both lacerating and deeply empathetic, this story satisfies the reader on every page

Silvia Moreno-Garcia goes from strength to strength. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is my favourite of her novels so far – a gothic tour-de-force with characters who will keep you glued to the page, and a series of satisfying, surprising riffs on Wells’ original story

Lush, eerie, and compulsively readable. This story got under my skin and stayed there

Beautiful, feral, and as sharp as a jaguar’s claws . . . I felt the anger and hope in this story down to my very bones. Truly, Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a virtuoso of the anti-imperialist gothic novel

Paints a vivid picture that is as alluring as it is unsettling, filled with action, romance, and monsters. However, it is Moreno-Garcia’s ability to mesh the unease of the scientifically created beasts with the real-life terrors of a life on the margins and the horror of colonialism that elevates this story. Readers will fall into this tale immediately, enchanted

If you love psychological horror and historical fiction, this is the book for you

She deftly combines fantasy, adventure, and even romance; the result is hard to classify but definitely a lot of fun. This isn’t the first book to riff on H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), but it’s definitely one of the better ones. A fun literary remix

Moreno-Garcia’s world-building chops are on display as she creates a distinct, vibrant backdrop to her audacious retelling. Fans of cerebral, atmospheric historical horror won’t want to miss this

I was swept along from beginning to end, enchanted by this wonderful novel that breathes new life into a classic concept

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

If there are two things I love in this world, it’s contemporary reimaginings of Victorian era horror and sci-fi, and joyful genre mashups in literature. Thank the Lord, then, for Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the author of the 1970s Mexico City noir Velvet Was the Night and the postcolonial gothic romance Mexican Gothic, who brings her chameleonic powers to bear on H. G. Wells’s 1896 ‘exercise in youthful blasphemy‘

Once again the author of Mexican Gothic demonstrates her genius for genre mashups, combining contemporary political awareness with the appeal of a creepy gothic romance

An evocative slow-burn SF drama about colonialism, heredity and scientific hubris, couched in lush prose

This is another excellent story by an author who is always worth reading and highly recommended

What Moreno-Garcia really does, though, is explore who the real monsters are in the world

A riff on H. G. Well’s 1896 SF horror classic The Island of Doctor Moreau, given a feminist slant, but it is much more than that and is often unexpectedly beautiful

Atmospheric and evocative

Romance, intrigue and body horror swirl together fantastically . . . an eerie book, in which strange creatures lurk and simmering passions ignite

Hailed as one of the most anticipated books of 2022

Seamlessly blends a sense of the old with the new, creating a new story that respects Wells but will always be in Moreno-Garcia’s distinct style and voice

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau sweeps along in the style of Isabel Allende’s fantastical City of Beasts