The novel bounces back and forth between Carlotta and Montgomery’s points of view as dark secrets unravel and the livelihood of everyone at Yaxaktun is jeopardized by the Lizalde clan, the wealthy patrons that finance Doctor Moreau’s work. Moreno Garcia’s ability to write characters in a way that makes you instantly adore them despite their flaws is also evident in Montgomery Laughton, who comes to the peninsula to serve as the new mayordomo of Yaxaktun, the remote hacienda where the doctor resides along with the hybrids (half human and half animal) that he creates. A stunning character in her own right, Carlotta is faced throughout the book with existential and moral questions that make her ponder her faith, the way people frequently “play god” with others, and what exactly family means. Wells’s original novel, she gives us the gift of Carlotta Moreau, the Doctor’s intelligent and alluring daughter who assists him with his experiments. While Moreno Garcia borrows some elements from H.G. The novel is initially set in 1871 and spans six years, placing the characters at the forefront of the uprising and using it as a decisive plot point that makes Moreno Garcia’s historical fiction even more mesmerizing. In Moreno Garcia’s colorful retelling, those same experimental elements are in place, however, the novel is now set against the vivid backdrop of the Yucatán Peninsula and the Caste War of Yucatán (when the Maya people rose up against the Mexican, European-descended, and mixed population) which began in 1847. The Doctor seeks to somehow discover the “extreme limit of plasticity of the living shape” by changing animals into men. The original tells the story of a shipwrecked man who discovers an island inhabited by strange creatures that have been operated on by the enigmatic Doctor Moreau. The follow up to 2021’s Velvet Was the Night, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a loose retelling of the 1896 science fiction novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. An emotional novel dense with both mystery and the unsettling sense that something is slightly off, Garcia instantly captivates you through vivid imagery and characters that tug at your heartstrings from the book’s first few scenes.
Over the 300-ish pages that comprise The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno Garcia breaks your heart just to help you put it back together again.
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