3 best Alice Kellen books

The precocity of the Valencian writer Alice kellen it has manifested itself in full balance with its creativity and ability to relate that universe of youthful emotions characterized in plots that go beyond the merely pink and spread out into an imaginative universe.

Comparisons with another author of her generation such as Elisabet benavent it becomes inescapable. But as always, the creative feud is always to the benefit of readers who ultimately enjoy well-crafted plots and incessant black-on-white life adventures.

Here's a juicy volume for lovers of the most intense Alice Kellen:

In the case of Alice Kellen, these "vital adventures" are distinguished by a more existentialist point, if possible, within a genre of course juvenile, but with those more transcendental pretenses that fit very well with the feelings of the early ages, open in the channel to love and to the diffuse horizons of adult life.

Top 3 Recommended Novels by Alice Kellen

The map of desires

The most important treasure map. What you can find in that blog that is written as the determination of a destiny... What if they gave you a map to discover who you are? Would you follow the marked route to the end?

Imagine that you are destined to save your sister, but in the end she dies and the reason for your existence vanishes. That is what happens to Grace Peterson, the girl who has always felt invisible, the one who has never left Nebraska, the one who collects words and sees the days go by sheltered in monotony.

Until the game of The Map of Desires comes into her hands and, following the instructions, the first thing she must do is find someone named Will Tucker, whom she has never heard of and who is about to embark with her on a journey straight to the heart, full of vulnerabilities and forgotten dreams, longings and unexpected affections. But is it possible to move forward when the secrets start to weigh too much? Who is who in this story?

The Archipelago Theory

Each one on their island, longing for the Ithaca that could make them happy. Perhaps the remote epic can be extended to the present. Ulysses of all conditions among shipwrecks that cling to the island that we already are without enjoying it in its proper measure.

«The archipelago theory comes to say that we are all islands, we come into this world alone and we leave exactly the same, but we need to have other islands around us to feel happy in the middle of that sea that unites as much as it separates. I have always thought that it would be a small island, one of those where there are three palm trees, a beach, two rocks and little else; I have felt invisible for much of my life.

But then you appeared, who would undoubtedly be a volcanic island full of caves and flowers. And it is the first time that I wonder if two islands can touch each other in the depth of the ocean, even if no one is able to see it. If that exists, if between the corals and sediments and whatever it is that anchors us in the middle of the sea there is a point of union, without a doubt it is you and me. And, if not, we are so close that I am convinced that we can swim to you.

Exciting, intense, heartbreaking, tender, the new novel by Alice Kellen, the author of already unforgettable novels like We on the Moon, The Boy Who Draws Constellations or The Map of Desires, is a beautiful story that navigates in the territory of love , the most desired emotion.

The Archipelago Theory

The boy who drew constellations

Valentina herself is the one who introduces us into her life with that closeness conferred by the first person in the narrative. And if an aspect wins any story with that direct communication from you to you, it is that the impressions can be greater, that the emotions are transmitted from the epicenter.

The risk is to fall into the linear from the only prism of the character of Valentina (Valeria almost comes out as the other great protagonist of the writer Elisabet Benavent). But the author knows how to overcome these potential counterweights since the total introduction into Valeria's vision and her discovery of the other great protagonist of the story ... Because there is Gabriel, pointing to that necessary idealization of love to know that it really exists with its maximum intensity , with that shake capable of readjusting the foundations of Valeria's entire existence to get the best out of herself, putting away fears and launching into decisions without prejudice. All thanks to that transforming love.

The boy who drew constellations

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where everything shines

Those brilliant moments in which everything is concentrated and everything is forgotten. Eternity is that and the rest is the weak trail that barely trails through the cosmos of our existence. Knowing we know, but there is no other choice but to assume that ours is to travel like trails, leaving behind the initial explosion that justified everything at the time.

Nicki Aldrich and River Jackson have been inseparable since they came into the world within forty-seven minutes of each other. She did it covered in pixie dust. Him as if he were a flaming meteor. The small coastal town where they grew up became the setting for their bike rides, afternoons in the treehouse, and first loves, secrets, and doubts.

However, as the years go by, River dreams of escaping from that lost corner where everything revolves around traditional lobster fishing and Nicki longs to find her place in the world. But what happens when nothing goes as planned? Is it possible to choose two different paths and, despite everything, find yourself at the end of the journey?

To achieve this, River and Nicki will have to dive into the depths of the heart, rescue pieces of what they were and understand what they broke. And perhaps in this way, uniting and fitting each fragment together, they will be able to discover who they are now and remember the brilliance of intangible things.

where everything shines

Everything we never were

Love as a placebo and subsequent sublimation towards resilience. Love in the face of the worst phases that extend after the traumatic, the disruptive thing in life that manages to tear you out of your place with that jolt of fragility and pain.

Leah seems to capitalize on this whole story from her alienating situation following the accidental loss of her parents. Until an Axel appears on the scene who picks her up at his house partly out of friendship with his brother partly out of solidarity and in another remote part because perhaps fate had it set that way. Because yes, the thing flows between them like that youth capable of overcoming everything and awakening them towards secrets held between them from a chemistry that is awakening and that is leading them towards the discovery of mutual need, of passion as a vindication of the life despite everything.

Everything we never were

All that we are together

It must be recognized that happiness, like unforgettable moments and great loves, have that I don't know what idealization, a spark capable of staying alive in the memory as long as they do not allow themselves to be burned by the vague desire to perpetuate the beauty of the ephemeral.

And of course, Axel and Leah give us that vision of the meeting at the right moment, in the middle of a disaster from which they both end up flying over like phoenix birds. Only the reunion between them was inevitable. And in fact the second parts cannot be ruled out as great opportunities. The question is to dose to maintain the ideal of love. Three years later, more than enough time to reconnect with that person and their new circumstances.

Be the same but no longer identical or share the same time. What about Axel and Leah is that challenge to destiny, that taste for the fleeting, that resistance to the everyday, that recovering time later and to the depths of the physical, feelings of true, tangible love. Only on a practical level, the reunion between Axel and Leah may not be the most opportune. Because the years do not pass in vain in the plane of the imperative reality of the circumstances.

All that we are together

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