![]() ![]() "(I)t looks like Marisha Pessl has strung the story together from little scraps of jotted-down ideas - ambitious ones, mostly, about the power of myth and the need for magic in an ordinary world, but also a few crazy ones (.) Assuming you don't mind a little crazy, the first 400 pages of Night Film make for a masterful puzzle. ![]() ![]() Yet for all its faults, Night Film is an engrossing yarn, full of twists and cliffhangers." - The Economist Worst of all is Ms Pessl’s penchant for italics, her constant need for emphasis undermining all subtlety. (.) Shrewd storytelling is marred by convenient confessions high-octane thrills tempered by relentless exposition. "Ms Pessl swiftly veers from the standard whodunnit to deliver a more inventive, reality-warping tale about family curses, black magic and the manipulative influence of film.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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