Thriller Thursday
Thank you Random House and Delrey Books for this gifted copy.
Bring on the horror, mystery and magic!!
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost filmโand awakens one womanโs hidden powers.
๐ฆ๐๐ป๐ผ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐: Montserrat has always been overlooked. Sheโs a talented sound editor, but sheโs left out of the boysโ club running the film industry in โ90s Mexico City. And sheโs all but invisible to her best friend, Tristรกn, a charming if faded soap opera star, though sheโs been in love with him since childhood.
Then Tristรกn discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their livesโeven if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.
Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristรกn to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristรกn begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.
As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristรกn may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.
๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ?
AOTD: Yup๐