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Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

21 reviews

libraryofmoss's review against another edition

dark lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I guess this is technically a horror/ghost story kind of book but all the slice of life details and light romance makes it downright cozy. It’s slow to get started, which I actually I enjoyed. I loved getting to know the characters and the background of occultism creates a believable, haunting atmosphere where the spooky stuff can play out. A perfect Halloween read for someone like myself who can’t deal with anything too scary or dark!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Suicide, and Murder

peppypenguin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

An engaging adventure with horror, magic and mystery. The concept of film as ritual and magic is, to me, unique. I enjoyed the care the author took to explain how the magic system works through the characters and progression of the story - it could have easily gone sideways and devolved into a nonsensical mess but it felt like going through a tutorial, so by the third act we have an idea of what is happening. I loved the main characters even when I didn’t. I felt they were well developed, and at the end of the day the story is also about their friendship and love for each other. It adds some cheesiness to the plot but that wasn’t an issue for me. Overall it’s a fun read that picks up the pace as it goes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

drymice's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, and Car accident

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Homophobia, and Alcohol

virgilsinferno's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

A slow burn with an epilogue I didn't care for. But I liked the bit of character growth we get and I think the magic stuff is interesting and the history bits were cool. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Biphobia and Suicide

rmperezpadilla's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Sexism and Car accident

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Suicide

reddeddy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

ninahuynh's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I found the writing in this book to sometimes be confusing. I like the direction Silvia Moreno-Garcia is exploring. It gives me sci-fi vibes, like those of the genres using

video games and film as a launchpad to another dimension.

I did not anticipate magic to be part of this plot, but I guess that works on par with her theme as Mexican Gothic, my first book from her, also has elements of magic, but with

mushroom

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Classism

hjb_128's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

garrettcz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

No spoilers:

I struggled with this book. I really liked the occult and mysticism elements. I really liked the history tie-ins and details. I liked some of the details about the film industry. 

I really disliked the characters. It felt like the author was going out of her way to make them unlikable and really awful to each other. 

I felt the story spent way too much time on really boring, mundane things and far too little time on the cool things like mysticism, occultism, and the horror elements. The story would sometimes dip into horror but the scenes felt way too fast so the atmosphere didn’t build up enough to where I really felt anything from them. I couldn’t get immersed in the spooky/horror scenes to really care and I didn’t care about the characters enough to really be engaged by the action scenes, so there never really felt like there was enough tension. 

Spoilers:

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I REALLY hated the romance ending thing. I saw it coming and was really hoping this wouldn’t happen. These characters felt like they really disliked each other and if romantic chemistry could be approximated with temperature theirs would be somewhere in the ballpark of absolute zero. Yuck. 

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

falchionm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, and Toxic friendship