Dark Times, by John Connolly

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John Connolly does it again. From a narrative halfway between terror and black genre, it catches every reader to the point of reading exhaustion. Facing evil can never come for free. Every hero must face his natural nemesis, the one that stands as a fundamental balancing act so that he ...

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The Temptation of Forgiveness, by Donna Leon

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The tandem Donna Leon - Brunetti returns to roll in perfect harmony to offer us a new and impeccable plot of crime novel where the foundation of the crime is hidden between personal aspects that sprinkle on Brunetti with ruthless realism. Although Brunetti is used to directing his investigations between ...

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Self-portrait without me, by Fernando Aramburu

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After Patria, Fernando Aramburu comes back to the literary arena with a more personal work. But perhaps the most personal aspect of this work is the one that concerns the reader himself. Reading this book gives off an essential empathy, that which makes the common imagination, the ...

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The Whole Truth, by Karen Cleveland

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Truman syndrome always has a hook as an argument. That of waking up to a reality that has been hidden from you for some obscure reason or indecipherable intention makes the reader hold their breath towards the discovery of the truth. If we add to this syndrome that the affected person is a character ...

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The many, by Tomás Arranz

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A book that entertains and cultivates must always be given special consideration. It is the case of this novel The many. By boat I soon come up with many interpretations of the title of the novel (always subjective after a gratifying read). Because the title has a material meaning that will soon be ...

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The city of rain, by Alfonso del Río

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Bilbao as a rainy city is a typical image that can have its days numbered thanks to climate change. But the imaginary already has this great city cataloged in this way, so the synecdoche or metaphor of "city of rain" still works perfectly. But back in the 80s ...

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Country girls trilogy. by Edna O´Brien

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Great works are imperishable. The Country Girls Trilogy transcends from its original publication in 1960 to today with the same depth and validity. It is about the human, about friendship, about the female perspective of the world, with its obstacles and why not, also with its ...

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Take care of me, by María Frisa

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The Aragonese crime novel finds new props in which to sustain a growing trend. Luis Esteban recently offered us his proposal The river was silent. This time it is up to María Frisa, an author who takes off the lambskin of youth literature to ...

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Intuition, by Elisabeth Norebäck

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What defines the word intuition is an ability to discern the truth without any other foundation than the instinctual and / or emotional, without any rational process of our brain intervening in such a process. Stella is a young woman, still young but marked as a bitter long-lived soul by an event ...

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This is the sea, by Mariana Enríquez

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A story of the fan phenomenon from within, from the deepest part that turns idols into the empty sustenance of the most soulless lives. Beyond the euphoria, the music as a way of life, the shadowed myths and the cannon fodder legends of the ...

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Apricot Time, by Beate Teresa Hanika

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Intergenerational encounters are always enriching. And in the literary field it is a fruitful space in which the richness of the human can emerge, a kind of synthesis between past, present and future. Although, really past and future are always the same shadow. Elisabetta has a lot of past, a past tense of ...

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The Answers, by Catherine Lacey

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Living together is always an experiment. The coexistence between those once in love always moves through different phases of an unpredictable cycle. Getting to see the couple as a stranger is not something so strange (worth the braying). The best of the initial in love self parks its defects, perhaps even its ...

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