The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
On the isolated hacienda Yaxaktun in 1870s Yucatán, Carlota Moreau lives a sheltered life with her father, the brilliant and obsessive Dr. Moreau, who creates hybrids—beings part human, part animal—and with Montgomery Laughton, his hard-drinking mayordomo. Carlota loves her father, her chronic illness kept at bay by his weekly treatments, and the gentle hybrids she's grown up alongside. But their fragile world depends on the patronage of the wealthy Lizalde family.
When Eduardo Lizalde arrives and falls for Carlota, long-buried secrets—about the hybrids, about Carlota herself—threaten to bring everything down, against the backdrop of the Caste War of Yucatán. Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Daughter of Doctor Moreau reimagines H.G. Wells's classic as a lush, character-driven blend of science fiction, historical fiction, and gothic romance, alive with questions of colonialism, autonomy, and what it means to be human.
The only daughter of Dr. Moreau, she grows up on a secluded estate and begins to question her father's secrets and experiments.
A melancholic overseer with a tragic past who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments.
The charming and careless son of Dr. Moreau's patron, whose arrival disrupts the static world of the estate.
A researcher who is either a genius or a madman, conducting experiments that create human-animal hybrids.
A group of part human, part animal monstrosities, the result of Dr. Moreau's labor, who are destined to obey their creator.
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a historical drama set in 19th-century Mexico. It reimagines H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau, focusing on Carlota Moreau, her father's research, and the part-human, part-animal hybrids living on their estate.
This novel is a standalone reimagining of H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau, and it does not share characters or a continuous storyline with Silvia Moreno-Garcia's other books.
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a complete story within a single volume, offering a fully resolved narrative without requiring any prior reading.