![]() The novel bounces back and forth between the third-person points of view of Carlota and Montgomery. They live a (mostly) blissful and unbothered life in the "beautiful dream" that is Yaxaktun until their world is upended by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the son of Dr. In Yaxaktun ranch lives Carlota Moreau, the docile daughter of an infamous researcher with a secret even she’s unaware of majordomo Montgomery Laughton, a high-functioning depressed alcoholic who grows fond of the remote island and its inhabitants and the hybrids Lupe and Cachito, the fruits of the doctor's labor and Carlota's only family. Wells and gives us a rousing and romantic anti-colonial novel set in the Yucatán Peninsula in 19th-century Mexico. In the follow-up to the noir mystery "Velvet Was the Night," the genre-hopping author reimagines the classic 1896 sci-fi novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H.G. Watch Video: Banned books: What a new wave of restrictions could mean for studentsĪre we monsters? Or are we miracles? That's what Silvia Moreno-Garcia forces us to ask ourselves in "The Daughter of Doctor Moreau" (Del Rey, 320 pp., ★★★ out of four, out now). ![]()
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