Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

​I’m such a fan. I'd rave and rave, but seriously, let’s focus. I didn’t love all of Moreno-Garcia’s books–her fantasy efforts leave me indifferent. But this one…this one appears to be ripped straight out from my imagination.
All the themes I love to see in fiction are here: movies, occult, historical events mixing with imaginary ones, yet another original historical setting (this time early ‘90s in Mexico City), magic (the right kind not the fantasy novel crap), cults, and just oodles and oodles of excitement.
This book was SO much fun. Possibly author’s best since Mexican Gothic. Dynamic, thrilling, tough to put down from the first chapter straight down to the explosive (albeit considerably drawn out) denouement.
Leave it to Moreno-Garcia to take two lifelong friends and mix them up with a shadowy Nazi occult magician and his followers, who have found a way to pursue arcane ends through modern (well, kinda sort since silver nitrate isn’t really in use anymore) means.
They say movies are magic, but Moreno-Garcia puts her own, inimitable spin on that aphorism.
Very, very awesome. Recommended. Thanks Netgalley.