The Daughter of Doctor Moreau: #bookreview

Intro

What would you do if your entire life was based on a lie told by your own father? Carlotta Moreau, the daughter of Doctor Moreau, is about to find out how to deal with a lifetime of secrets.

Review

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is set at a remote estate on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. It is loosely based on The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. You don’t need to know too much about the original story to enjoy The Daughter of Doctor Moreau.

The book begins in 1871 and ends in approximately 1877. Montgomery Laughton has been hired to be a caretaker of the estate by the benefactor, Hernando Lizalde. From what everyone says, the area is beautiful. However, there is some weird stuff going on at the estate.

Montgomery has been sworn to keep the experiments of Doctor Moreau a closely guarded secret. Moreau has been given the task of making animal/human hybrids into a workforce for Lizalde. So far the hybrids haven’t been strong enough to send away.

Carlotta knows that her illness requires the use of jaguars in a serum to maintain her health. Part of Montgomery’s job is to hunt jaguars and bring them back to Doctor Moreau.