by Marisha Pessl
Sovereign, deadly, and perfect.By far one of my favorites in 2013, maybe one of my favorites for a long time. The book is so captivating, takes you on twists and turns but while going through a haunted house of sorts. Dark, noir, brilliantly written and executed. Well done.
**No spoils. 3.5 stars At 624 pages, Night Film is a hefty book. I'm typically easily bored, but I will say that, for the most part, this story kept me riveted. There were a few parts throughout that dragged a bit and I worried that the story was going downhill, but then it'd pick right back ...
It's rare when a book is so special that you wish you could read it all over again for the first time and you are not even halfway through it yet. But that's Night Film. It's a book that I firmly believe will be talked about for years. It will have people saying this is their favorite book of all ti...
4.5 stars
When early reviews for Night Film started coming in and I was repeatedly seeing chilling, twisty and haunting, I just knew I had to have a favorite on my hands. Cult films and novels with endless plot twists, even those left unanswered, are right in my wheelhouse so my excitement level for Night Fil...
Full review at Bookgasm:Marisha Pessl’s NIGHT FILM draws from a deep well of cultural anxieties — and equally pervasive and compelling fascinations or enthusiasms — about the dangerous seductions of story. Horror literature is rife with tales of readers lost in the fictions they obsessively sought t...
My imagination feels enriched and nourished after reading this book.It is so rare anymore that a reader can walk into a book knowing nothing about the contents - and part of this book's greatest pleasures came from exactly that. I encourage you to simply take my word that this book is an absolute d...