Night Film

Well this was a disappointment. It started out quite convincing, building up an atmosphere and mystery, but then it somehow went downhill from there. Quite steady downhill. The story telling was as if Pessl rather had written a movie script. The problem being that the movie in her mind was a horror/mystery/detective thriller that seemed to follow all the predictable rules of the trade. Having one clue lead to another, have characters voluntarily deliver large helpful monologues, and somehow have everything seemingly be tied up neatly in the end. And on the way you got a lot of reader hand-holding by reminding them of facts they had read about 50 pages earlier, just in case someone forgot.