Nothing is more powerful than a hobby that starts dragging you around in your free time and ends up becoming a dedication. The difference between one and the other term lies in the material possibility to give yourself with greater determination. Come on, almost by definition what has been happening with a budding writer who can finally make it "trade."
Jose Zoilo He is one of those authors who made a strong commitment to his love of writing and who used self-publishing like others already consolidated in the style. Javier Castillo o Eva Garcia-Saez.
In the case of Zoilo, everything was thanks to a brilliant approach to the genre of historical fiction with war overtones. Narrations that at times seem to invite us to epic-fantastic scenarios and that, however, belong to any of the real battles that took place throughout the geography of this old Hispania. Whether it was to resolve any dynastic controversy or geopolitical disputes in the old ways.
Action in abundance documented with the meticulousness of the writer committed to the perfect setting. A real pleasure to travel that same Iberian peninsula willing to configure itself little by little as the navel of the world that it would become.
Top 3 recommended novels by José Zoilo
God's name
I do not know if this new work opens the way to a new saga. Everything is possible in a Zoilo that, once put to unravel historical moments once resolved with blood, can be ventured and ventured with anything, always in a fascinating way ...
Here José Zoilo unfolds the exciting war scene of the Battle of Guadalete, one of the crucial episodes in the history of Spain.
Legend has it that King Solomon had an object built on which he would write all the world's knowledge: a table full of gold and jewels capable of filling the ambition of those who possess it with its power.
Year 711 AD. C .: Muslim troops land for the first time in the south of the Iberian Peninsula with an unstoppable desire to conquer that until now has known no rival. Surprised while fighting in the north of his territory, the Visigoth king Roderico must set out to defend the southernmost province of a kingdom now facing too many enemies.
As armies prepare for battle and old feuds begin to surface among the Goth nobles, a religious escorted by a small party heads to the battlefield carrying a relic that could change the course of the contest. It is time to see if its sacred power will be enough to take victory, or if, on the contrary, it will end up becoming the ruin of the kingdom.
The Alano
Everything started with this novel. A story that, accustomed as readers of historical novels to having as references of the great most popular mythologies in the Nordic world, rediscovers a Hispania full of magic, myths, trickery, blood and action.
The story of Attax, a barbarian in the decline of Roman Hispania. First installment of the historical trilogy The ashes of Hispania.
Hispalis, 438 AD: Faced with the alarming appearance of a Swabian horde ready to ravage his lands, Attax, an Alano barbarian, decides to join the army of an old friend to fight for the defense of his people. The glory that he hopes for disappears when he is taken prisoner and sold as a slave.
After 11 years of servitude, Attax must start a new life after the murder of his master, with the company of his son, Marco. Attax will immerse himself in an intense journey through dying Hispania, which will lead him to understand the value of friendship and love, as well as the price of losing both. A journey to maturity that he despised in his youth.
Suevi, Vandals and Alans come to life on the stage of a troubled and decaying Hispania, abandoned to its fate by a vanishing Roman Empire.
The doge of the end of the world
The third installment of The Ashes of Hispania. A phenomenal closing (which perhaps one day will be resumed given the narrative vein discovered) in which our unexpected heroes appear in that almost post-apocalyptic world that meant the abandonment of the Romans and their glorious empire for the necessary re-emergence from the shadows...
The pyres are still smoking after the battle for Coviacum, and the wind scatters the ashes that recall the Visigoth defeat. With King Theodoric already in Gaul, the game board of the Hispanic provinces will have to be rearranged once more, now free from the interference of external forces.
With his revenge now consummated, for Attax and his companions it is time to return to Lucus to honor his word and try to heal the wounds suffered. But the consequences that the armed conflict has caused are far from healing, and it is only a matter of time before the call to arms resounds in the cities, valleys and mountains of a dying Hispania.
Share with Attax the outcome of the adventure that has allowed him to be a participant in many of the events that shook Hispania in the turbulent years that preceded the disappearance of the Roman Empire.
