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A review by crackityjones
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.0
Man I wanted to like this more. and to be fair three stars feels stingy! I liked the main characters and i really liked the way that she wove historical Nazi esotericism into the fabric of this book. She is great at making horror out of socio-political fact. I think that is probably one of the sentences I say that makes people want to punch me, but it's the best way I can think to phrase it. This book was really clever and I think very well imagined and put together.
My main qualm with it is that it felt like the whole thing was just talking. Three hundred straight pages of dialogue. Talking about magic, talking about monsters, talking about film, talking talking talking talking. And I just got kind of bored!
In a lot of ways this seemed structurally similar to Mexican Gothic. I think that this is actually the better book although I enjoyed the other more - it feels like maybe she's stretching more as a writer, so this was rougher around the edges but ultimately more ambitious? It was less of a page turner for me but at the end of the day I'd still recommend this.
My main qualm with it is that it felt like the whole thing was just talking. Three hundred straight pages of dialogue. Talking about magic, talking about monsters, talking about film, talking talking talking talking. And I just got kind of bored!
In a lot of ways this seemed structurally similar to Mexican Gothic. I think that this is actually the better book although I enjoyed the other more - it feels like maybe she's stretching more as a writer, so this was rougher around the edges but ultimately more ambitious? It was less of a page turner for me but at the end of the day I'd still recommend this.