A review by indulgentreads
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This was a fun one from a character voice point of view. It's also clear that Silvia Moreno Garcia did a ton of research on the history of Mexican film and it was fun and fascinating to be immersed in this story via that historical context. The engagement with real world Nazi occultism could've been more rigorous as it lightly touched on that real world connection between occultism and how it appealed to fascists via white supremacy, but didn't fully take it to task or use the story itself to explore the fuller consequences of this reality. For once, I think making the magic real detracted from the overall story and any insightful commentary the story was aiming to tell. But Montserrat and Tristan were fun characters and their dynamic was a satisfying trajectory.