A review by sorman0110
Night Film by Marisha Pessl

4.0

Well written book about a disgraced journalist named McGrath trying to recover his personal life, as well as his professional life. The story is centered around Stanislas Cordova, a renown director of horror movies who has a cult-like following. Cordova's daughter, Ashley, commits suicide, which leads McGrath on a journey to find out what exactly happened. There are many twists and turns in the plot, as well as lots of interesting characters that we meet along the way, which I enjoyed! However, and this actually makes the book about a 3.5 for me, it was TOOOOO long, by about 200 pages in my opinion. I felt like the end just dragged on, and that the author just wanted to describe all of the movies that this fictional director created, rather than wrapping up the story with a solid, cohesive ending. Overall, though a relatively quick and easy read that kept me entertained.