Night Film Night Film

Night Film

A Novel

    • 4.1 • 402 Ratings
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars)

“Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn, and start sleeping with the lights on.”—The Washington Post
 
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage
 
On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.
 
For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.
 
The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time, he might lose even more.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2013
August 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
624
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
37.6
MB

Customer Reviews

shasha1020 ,

Night Film

This book was wonderful in the way it sucked me in and had me not wanting to put it down but towards the end I was very tired of the constant running in a maze of clues and reveals that led to nowhere. It reminded me of taking hold of a thread in a woolen sweater and unraveling it until there was nothing left but a pile of woolen thread. In the end there was no end and the writer cheated the reader out of an ending. It was like sex with no climax. Sex that went on for too long trying to achieve an orgasm but without success, leaving you exhausted and just wishing for it to end. When I put my time and energy into anything, I want to feel satisfaction for having done that, instead of feeling I wasted my time. Early on I knew McGrath was being set up by Cordova and that all these people talking to him were orchestrated by Cordova in a real life movie of his creation. I also knew from the time that exchange of a child's soul was mentioned that Sam was the intended victim. There were too many points in the story never explained. For one the look of triumph on Villarde's face when Sam briefly disappeared in the store and his subsequent rush to run away as though he had accomplished his goal and was done with his part in the real life movie. There are many more but I don't feel that this is worth anymore of my valuable time. In summary, this was a book of great promise and great potential, but like a young life cut too short, it did not fulfill what could have been! Instead it became a wheel stuck in a muddy rut, unable to move out but continually spinning and just slinging mud everywhere over and over.

Isaacike ,

Night Film

I was lucky enough to get my hands on an Advance Reader's Copy of the novel. All I have to say is ; MASTERPIECE!! This book is gonna be a huge BESTSELLER!!

AllieAnne10 ,

Too ambitious for its own good

This book had some interesting ideas. However, the author didn’t seem to have the talent to fully develop them. Instead, she threw everything and the kitchen sink at the reader, to the point where it was difficult and frustrating to keep track of the plot.

The multimedia approach was interesting at first. However, it quickly became more of a gimmick, i felt, designed to mask the author’s lack of talent.

I would’ve gladly sacrificed the “websites”and the “magazine articles” in exchange for a tight and coherent story, instead of one that ran the reader around in circles for no discernible reason. I wasn’t terribly impressed.

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