The praise for this one will come, and this time, i will be amongst the cheerleaders.Ī failure on nearly every level. but i will say that it is pleasantly creepy, very well-executed, and genuinely gripping. I do not want to say anything that will mar your reading experience. cordova's life is surrounded by mystery - very few photos of him exist, mysterious deaths, madness and disappearances accrue in his wake, his actors refuse to speak of their experiences working with him, but they are forever changed.Īnd scott's going to find out what really happened to ashley cordova, and maybe uncover some dirt on stanislas himself and restore his own reputation. cordova's films are scary-dark pieces whose fans share a cultish devotion, especially since the films are only distributed through unconventional, underground channels. She just happens to be the daughter of stanislas cordova, the very same reclusive film director who was responsible for the "disgraced" adjective on scott's CV. The basic plot revolves around scott mcgrath, a disgraced investigative journalist drawn to the mystery of a beautiful young woman who has apparently committed suicide.
Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're on another trapdoor. There is a sentence in this book, where a character is talking about his life, but it also serves as the most succinctly perfect description of the experience of reading this book: To borrow the phrase of a very enthusiastic man,Įverything except easy to review, that is.
#Night book cast full#
So when i was handed this ARC, at first, i was a little, "her?"Īnd it was full of pictures and screenshots and case notes and just a real explosion of visual literacy.Īnd the first thing i thought of, because of the mixed-media approach, and the dark tones, was House of Leaves.Īnother book i found overly gimmicky that everyone else loooves.īut something about this made me want to dive right into it, despite those two books being lodged in my mind and making me hesitate. and i thought special topics was fine, just a little too cheekily stylized for me, and a little hyperactive and referential in its prose. i might have said this once or twice or a dozen times on the internet. i am a tough judge of books that claim to be like The Secret History. but it was a Very Big Deal at the time.Īnd it was a book that i personally thought was just okay. and i thought special topics was fine, just a litt good lord, remember marisha pessl? she of Special Topics in Calamity Physics fame? remember the immense fawning hordes of fans and the praise surrounding that book? you might not, it was 7 years ago and all. and it was a book that i personally thought was just okay. Good lord, remember marisha pessl? she of Special Topics in Calamity Physics fame? remember the immense fawning hordes of fans and the praise surrounding that book? you might not, it was 7 years ago and all. The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. Though much has been written about Cordova's dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.ĭriven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova's eerie, hypnotic world. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror film director Stanislaus Cordova-a man who hasn't been seen in public for more than thirty years.įor McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan.
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