KowloonGhost reviewed Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Review of 'Night Film' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I'm just going to say a couple things about this book.
The first is that the multimedia and social aspect of it worked against it, while it was meant to immerse you within the story, it had the opposite affect and I often felt that I wasn't as interested as I should have been. The stock photographs and media was too produced and instead of feeling real, it felt overworked, the models too perfect. It was very noticeable and took me away from the story.
The second is the ending, though somehow fitting, it felt that the entire story before it became irrelevant. It's true that it is said that anyone who has worked with Cordova thrives for greater things and is likely to never have been heard from again, and the ending sure does emphasis this.
My third and last complaint is that the book was too long for …
I'm just going to say a couple things about this book.
The first is that the multimedia and social aspect of it worked against it, while it was meant to immerse you within the story, it had the opposite affect and I often felt that I wasn't as interested as I should have been. The stock photographs and media was too produced and instead of feeling real, it felt overworked, the models too perfect. It was very noticeable and took me away from the story.
The second is the ending, though somehow fitting, it felt that the entire story before it became irrelevant. It's true that it is said that anyone who has worked with Cordova thrives for greater things and is likely to never have been heard from again, and the ending sure does emphasis this.
My third and last complaint is that the book was too long for the story that it told, I felt that about 200 pages could have been omitted and it would have been much more gripping.
In conclusion, it was not an awful or great book, it wasn't great or magnificent either. It was good. Could have been better, but good.