Silver Nitrate

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

336 Pages

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Del Rey

Release Date: July 18, 2023

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Motion Pictures, Audio Recording

Montserrant is a sound editor and Tristan is an actor. They have been friends since childhood, and both have faced tragedy. She has had surgeries to fix a twisted leg. Tristan had surgeries after a car accident which killed his girlfriend, Karina. Tristan just moved into a new apartment and receives mail for another tenant, Abel Urueta, a former fil producer. After getting to know him, the three of them agree to dub an unfinished horror movie that is on silver nitrate film. Abel has kept the film in his freezer, even though it is highly flammable, but because he believes it is cursed. The main character of the film, Wilhelm Ewers, was a thief, opportunistic and magic practitioner.

The book is fast paced, the characters are well developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. This story is full of broken characters. There is not one person in this story that has not been touched by tragedy. The author brings the story to life by including a woman as a sound editor since her mother was a sound editor when it was mainly a man’s profession. If you like a good horror-ish mystery, you may enjoy this book.