Night Film

I don't even know where to begin with my thoughts on this book. The writing was excellent, for the most part, but I found the story to be kind of slow and dragging at some points. It was so easy to get immersed in this novel and to feel like it was real. I still want to think that Cordova and all of his films are real because of how much detail the author described them in. The scenes are The Peak were amazingly suspenseful and exciting, and made up for a lot of the slowness of the earlier parts of the novel. So much was left wide open at the end of the novel, but I completely understand and appreciate the author's decision to do that, as it reflects the mysterious Cordova's directing style. Cordova is the main focus of the entire novel, yet he remains mostly a mystery and a complete stranger by the end. He's just like the locked briefcase described in one of his own movies that never gets opened. I also loved the ambiguity of Scott's entire investigation. He goes into it firmly believing in reality and refuses to get caught up in others' beliefs in supernatural and demonic explanations for what's going on. Yet over time, he changes completely and is so caught up in the case that he starts to lose touch with reality. I loved that the novel led me in the same direction, and I started believing (somewhat) that this case must be more than it seemed. In the end, it turned out that there was nothing paranormal about the case, and Scott's original belief in reality was the right one. But finding the final truth of it all didn't really matter at all, and I loved that this novel was one of the first ones I've read where that didn't disappoint me. While this novel wasn't as suspenseful or scary as I was expecting, I was surprised by how much I ended up enjoying it and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for something that's likely very different from anything they've read before.