The second I could get my hands on a copy of this book, I had to. I loved Mexican Gothic and Silver Nitrate did not disappoint me.
Montserrat is such a curmudgeon. She’s got a bad attitude, a bad temper and hardly tolerates people (she might be my new life coach). But, she’s incredibly good at her job and is taken for granted. Her attention to detail makes her the perfect main character to solve the case of a cursed film.
Tristan is a man child who needs his best friend to take care of him, and gets swept up in the horror of a dead (?) sorcerer and his cult followers, in the most delightfully inept ways possible, he can’t see what is right in front of him, but eventually does smarten up and make the obvious choice.
This book gave me the same vibes as watching Night of the Living Dead from 1968. It’s such a creepy fun time. I loved it. I came away feeling like I had just spent the day snuggled up on my couch with my sister watching ridiculous horror movies together and eating our body weight in junk food.
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