![]() ![]() 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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