You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom

A Modern Gothic Horror

By: Vincent Tirado

Narrated by: Danyeli Rodriguez del Orbe

Demons clash with inheritance claims as secrets unfold and violence is unleashed over twelve harrowing hours trapped in a house with the worst thing imaginable: family.

When Papi Ramon, the patriarch of the wealthy Abreu family dies, he gives the family one last message in the will: “One of you is el bacà, the demon that I made a deal with. Get rid of them or you will be damned.” Xiomara, the uncontested favorite of Papi Ramon (and therefore the least liked in the family), watches as everyone dismisses this as the joke of a senile old man and demands the lawyer obtain the previous will Papi wrote.

While the lawyer drives back to his office, a storm breaks out, forcing the entire family—Xiomara’s aunts and uncles and cousins—to remain in the house. And the words of Papi’s will hangs over their heads even heavier than the rain clouds. Over the course of the night, scandal after scandal is revealed to the public about the family. Suddenly a tense few hours of surviving her family turns into a vicious night of recrimination, violence, accusations…and murder.

Xiomara is faced with an impossible task: uproot a demon and somehow kill it or excise the ghosts that linger within her own family.

And the clock is ticking...

Narrator ruined it

Even at 2x speed, this narrator DRAGGED on. No inflection, monotone narration. Could have been a great listen, but the narrator made me almost DNF the book.

the author did a great job at highlighting the anti Haitian sentiment among Dominicans

this book has a lot of potential The problem I had with the book is the narrator she was horrible very monotone One Note no inflection in her voice for any of the characters I did get the anti-Haitian sentiment among the family and realize where this was going The ending was very abrupt not sure how I feel about it or this book

Thoroughly enjoyed it

Twists and turns were insane! Couldn’t turn it off! The last hour had me gripping the edge of my seat.