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Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

5 reviews

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

tamara_joy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Murder and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

courtney_scott1025's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.25

This was my first Silvia Moreno-Garcia book. I was really looking forward to reading this book. I have heard great things, and I love a good cult. This just was slow and not really shocking or surprising like I hoped. I was honestly excited to get the book done with. I will try Mexican Gothic next, as I have heard better things about that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicide, Murder, and Colonisation

spines's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

fun! the protagonists are both very flawed and snarky (and bisexual) and it's so refreshing that i get to be annoyed with them both at times. the mystery/occult portion was good but not great, definitely didn't scare/grip me the way mexican gothic did but it was still cool and spooky at times.

the romance wasn't super fleshed out but i still think they're sweet together, and i love the july talk shoutout in the acknowledgements

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Misogyny, Sexism, and Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Biphobia, Homophobia, Suicide, and Abortion

cadence99's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

Overall I really liked this book- I
felt like the character development was much improved from the books that I’ve read of hers in the past. I’d highly recommended it to anyone who can handle supernatural horror. A lot of if also felt very historical fiction heavy, with all the elements of old Mexican horror movies inserted throughout, and I really enjoyed that about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Antisemitism, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, and Cancer

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Homophobia, Suicide, Vomit, Stalking, Abandonment, and War