Truth is stranger than fiction but in the same breath we must realize the pen is also mightier than the sword! Both are true in this case with Silvia Moreno-Garcia taking us into a world all her own.
Mexican Gothic https://thesecretbooksleuth.blogspot.com/search?q=mexican+gothic was one heck of a spellbinding, mind blowing, magical ride that took me beyond wizards and warlords.
Silver Nitrate somehow builds upon that magic and catapults us into a new realm!
The boys club was something that Montserrat wanted to leave behind as a sound editor to run a film industry in Mexico. She felt invisible to Tristan the faded soap opera star and wanted to make a contribution to the world of film.
However, she didn't bank on the fact that lies were part of the process. That magic in and of itself might not be enough. That death may not be final but actually might include being reincarnated to ive in the present among us.
End a curse and finish a movie scene didn't seem that big of a hurdle for Montserrat and Tristan until uncovering she's got a presence following her and Tristan seeing his ex-girlfriend's ghost. Was it simply his past drug addiction coming back to haunt him? Should he invest in psychiatric treatment considering his girlfriends been dead for the past 10 years?
Sorcerer's magic is made to come alive through the use of nitrate stock creating a glowing scene -a conduit of spells that burst into flames. Silver nitrate is highly flammable but was cheap to produce so it was highly sought after in the 50's.
Ewers is the man with the plan that everyone believed was dead. A magician on film that wore a pendant. Ewers is not just any leader. He's part of this magical world in which we now see similar comparisons to mediums today.
A world in which yellow is favored by the author but in which green was sometimes used. A world that cast spells upon others and creates delusions for some.
Cultists, Nazi's, and magicians are all presented in spectacular fashion as readers become entranced in the spellbinding mission of ordinary to extraordinary.
What can one say is that it's simply more than mere blood magic, right?
Never give your power away through fear!!
"Words are also ritual, gestures are spells."
Air, earth, water, life, the opener...Sci-fi and fantasy will live on.
Could this be nothing more than a thief in plain site? Or, is this something far worse?
Ahh, momo you steal my heart.
Thank you to Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Random House Publishing, and Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.
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