Silver Nitrate - BokDraken

Inbunden, 336 sidor

Publicerades 18 juli 2023 av Del Rey.

ISBN:: 978-0-593-35536-7

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.

Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost …

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.

Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.

As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.

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Björn recenserade Silver Nitrate av Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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SMG continues to almost tickle all of what I think I want from a book like this, and long stretches of this is probably the best I've read of hers since Signal to Noise - unsurprisingly, since it's largely a similar idea. Movies as magic, amateurs piecing together esoterica, pre-Internet sleuthing being simply a lot of informational dead ends... Yes, there are bits where it drags a bit, and the central relationship is a little repetitive, but I can live with that. I might wish that it'd been a bit sleazier as a book about old horror movies, but I can live with that too. It's not perfect, it's not quite up there with Daughter of Dr Moreau, but it's still a ride that knows which clichés to love and which ones to burn down. Chanting cultists, Carpenter soundtrack and all.