Castro explores multiple perspectives, including the points of view of villainous characters, to keep the reader turning the pages in this novel that evokes the television series Supernatural as well as the Candyman films. The Aztec goddess of the underworld, Mictecacíhuatl, plays a terrifying role, reminding readers there are fates worse than death. With alternating time lines between the past and present, Castro’s novel serves as a painful chronicle of racial violence against Latinx people. Belinda finds that the things she thought she has put behind her are not going to give her up so easily. Belinda is at a friend’s wedding when she gets uncomfortably reacquainted with the urban legend of Milagros, a farm worker murdered on the property in the 1950s. Castro’s latest is a riveting #ownvoices novel exploring Mexican folk tales and legends mingled with the history of Texas.
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