Mexican Gothic. Silvia Moreno-Garcia

 I truly believe that there is a book for every reader and a reader for every book. And this book wasn’t for me.

The story starts with a society girl , Noemi Taboada, with no real purpose in life and is currently dabbling with anthology - topics like for a race to thrive superior mates with superior. Inferiors have no place in the world. On receiving an incoherent letter from her recently wed cousin, Noemi’s dad send her packing to High Place - one train a week, in the middle of no where, hardly any ppl around, and a lot of ravines to fall into. Mission : figure out if your cousin is unwell, help her if she needs you.

Except that the father daughter do not know that that house psychedelic . Yup, it’s taken over by mushrooms. Yup, you read it right mushrooms. The owner of the house has survived for centuries with the help of these mushrooms by taking over bodies of his kins and kids, and kids of kids and kind. Introducing a superior species in the midst from time to time strengthens the strain. And the owner is dying, and so it’s time for him to move on to the next ‘body’ - that of his son, except the son want his father dead but continue his life though his father’s way. And there is gloom, the first wife on the owner who has lived through centuries and is dying. The first wife is fed to the shrooms. Yup, fed to the shrooms. And is kinda alive - at least her brain is. Shroom needs human brain to survive apparently. 

Anyways, through a mish-mash of psychedelic house, infest, kinda zombie servants, house that controls you and you can’t escape , will Noemi be able to escape with her cousin? Will the house let them go?