If there is an author of youth literature that has emerged strongly in recent years in Spain, that is Blue jeans. Francisco de Paula Fernández successfully exploits a fresh and suggestive pseudonym for your teen audience. Approaching readers between 12 and 17 years old can be done via fantasy, with an earlier expiration date, or via love stories, with their more extended validity for that age where the sensation of summer love lasts for years and years. That's what it's like to be young, you enjoy the authentic until you glimpse the most prosaic reality, there on the horizon. Although Blue Jeans is also a teenage noir in which it is perhaps the most pioneering.
Anything that introduces young people to reading is always welcome. And love stories are an unsurpassable hook that, from the hand of a pen that knows how to handle those youthful worlds, captivates them like no other. Literature with capital letters then, if what it achieves is to create new readers, with that future gain in critical thinking and empathy.
And if you want that all-in-one with which to surprise any inveterate Blue Jeans readers, take a look at this case of a fundamental saga by the author:
For this ranking of the three best Blue Jeans novels I have consulted with staunch readers of this author. And these are the results and their justifications. But since not everything is adolescent literature in this author, we can also enjoy his forays into suspense...
Recommended Blue Jeans Books
Chopin's crimes
A plot that sounds different from what Blue Jeans has accustomed us to. Maybe a transition into new, darker genres. For the moment, a soft mix in which to accompany him in new scenarios and proposals...
In several houses in Seville there have been a series of robberies that worry the entire city. The thief, who is nicknamed "Chopin" because he always leaves a score of the famous composer to sign the robbery, takes money, jewelry and different valuables. One night a corpse appears in the living room of one of those houses and the tension increases.
Nikolai Olejnik is a young Pole who arrived in Spain with his grandfather several years ago. Since he died, he is alone and survives by committing crimes. He was a child prodigy in his country and his greatest passion is playing the piano. Suddenly, everything gets complicated and he becomes the main suspect in a murder. Niko goes to the office of Celia Mayo, a private detective, to ask her for help and there he meets Triana, Celia's daughter. The young woman immediately catches her attention, although it is not the best time to fall in love with her.
Blanca Sanz has only been working for the newspaper for five months The Guadalquivir when he receives a strange call in which he is leaked information about the Chopin case, which no one else knows. From that moment she becomes obsessed with everything related to the investigation and tries to find out who is behind those robberies.
The camp
We cannot deny it. We have all been young and have harbored exciting passions and unsettling tensions alike. Loves and fears as atavistic elements of the human condition. Essential elements multiplied by the chemistry of youth. Blue Jeans knows it and also knows the very close springs of emotions. The levers that can balance the weight of the world and move us from one pole to another. Today it's time to visit the disturbing sensations of risk ...
Ten of the most promising boys in the country, under 23 years old, have been invited to a very special camp in the Pyrenees. The precursor of this idea is Fernando Godoy, one of the richest men in Spain, who is looking for someone young to help him give a new image to his empire and take his place in the future.
In that idyllic setting, they will receive training and will be prepared to become the millionaire's right-hand man. But only one can do it. A bestseller of a young adult novel, a daring instagramer, a fashionable pop singer, a successful athlete, a brilliant criminology student, an influencer with her own brand, the creator of an app for geeks, one of the gamers of the moment, a boy who promulgates the word of God in a peculiar way and a well-known actress are the final candidates.
They will only have one handicap to be there: no cell phones or communication with the outside world. Things are going according to plan and the young people enjoy that experience until on the second Friday of coexistence the group coordinators disappear and one of the boys dies in strange circumstances. From that moment everything will change and unexpected events will continue to happen.
An influencer died in Paris
These are our times of posturing and social networks where we give a good account of happiness through sponsorships. And so, even death must be achieved with pretensions of eternity. What better place than Paris to leave this world with a good handful of likes...
Paris, 2023. A famous French perfume and cosmetics brand announces the Best Spanish-speaking Influencer of the Moment Award in order to gain a foothold in the Spanish market. The award will be presented in the French capital, but this party full of luxury, influencers and sequins will end in a tragic way: Henar Berasategui, one of the candidates for the award and the most popular Instagrammer of recent times, appears dead in one of the bathrooms of the theater where the gala is held. Next to her corpse they find, with her hands full of blood, Ana Leyton (Ley), a nineteen-year-old tiktoker that she is destroying and who is Henar's biggest rival.
The world of influencers, their representatives, brands, the rivalry between content creators, the youth with which they become famous, the haters, the pressure they endure, issues related to mental health, the fans who become obsessed with Their idols, the interests and the money they move will be the keys to this new Blue Jeans novel, dizzying, intriguing and furiously topical, in which love, misunderstanding and death will also be very present.
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Songs for Paula
The emergence of pubescent readers has multiplied since the release of this immediate bestseller. From blog entries to the materialization of this book full of sensitivity and emotional teenage experiences.
Paula is a teenager of almost 17 years who finds love for the first time on the Internet. After spending two months talking to Ángel, a young journalist who works for a music magazine, he decides to meet him and see if what he feels on the screen is also experienced face-to-face. But the boy is late, and while he waits, Paula meets Alex, an aspiring writer with a wonderful smile.
From that moment on, a story of love and heartbreak begins, which will be witnessed by «la Sugus», Paula's group of friends. A carefree, cheerful and sometimes difficult to swallow girls (like Sugus candies), who will help the protagonist to make important decisions in those days of March in a place in the city.
Can I dream with you?
As my adolescent critics tell me, with this novel that closed the The Club of the Misunderstood trilogy, Blue Jeans managed to put the best clasp to that story of friendship and love between its magnetic protagonists.
En Can I dream with you? the friendship between Valeria, Raul, María, Bruno y Ester is having a good time: they are very close again and the doubts that had arisen have been dispelled, thanks above all to the efforts of Alba, who is earning more than being part of the Club.
Gone are the bad moments that endangered the future of THE CLUB OF THE UNOMPRESENTED But after the calm, the storm arrives: misunderstandings, envies, unexpected reunions, stories that are reborn and the appearance of two mysterious new characters will once again endanger their friendship. One last twist to the story that kept my young readers in suspense and that they needed to swallow in order to reach the magical ending ...
Something as simple as being with you
A great story that meets the expectations of the youngest. A surprising and captivating new saga closing for a youthful soul eager to represent their emotional longings in the fantasy of a novel. The boys from Aisle 1B have just returned from Easter break to face the end of their freshman year of college.
They are not all who started, since Manu He has not appeared at the Benjamin Franklin residence for more than two months. The man from Malaga has told Would go that he would return, but he has not kept his word. Those last months of the course promise to be very hectic.
Oscar y Ainhoa they seem to be friends again, although one of them needs more; Julen has found love, like Tony, To who Isa eats Pizza poses an impossible challenge for him to be his girlfriend, and room 1155 has a new tenant. Extremadura Silvia she spends hours devoted to her career, Architecture, but she hides a secret, which she ends up telling David.
Will something arise between them? TO ElenaPerhaps, he is not too amused, because after his sister broke up with the Sevillian, he reconsiders his feelings for him, day after day.
