Velvet Was The Night - Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

Started: Sunday 3rd July 2022

Finished: Monday 4th July 2022

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I definitely judged this book by it’s cover. The image of this book absolutely drew me in the moment I saw it; I didn’t care what it was about, I had to read it. And I was not disappointed.

Velvet Was The Night is set in Mexico in the early 1970s and follows Maite and Elvis whilst they unbeknowingly search for the same girl amongst political unrest and activism.

I know very little about the culture that this book centres around but this gave me an insight which has definitely left me wanting to know more. I have Mexican Gothic on my TBR so that is likely to feature soon.

It was a fast based book with plenty of tension and a bit of gore thrown in but not so much that I had to put it down at any stage.

My only criticism is that if you don't know much about the era and unrest that the books is set around, you won't necessarily know much more by the end of it. I personally like to read historical fiction to gain some form of knowledge and education but this one didn't quite fill in the gaps for me.

But the story was great and rounded off very nicely.

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