Si Nora roberts had a writer daughter, it could well be Natasha preston. Because curiously both are lavish in genres as disparate as romantic and suspense as if it were a matter of going from growing lettuce or endive. An enviable facility for mutation.
As always I am more with the suspense, with that unexpected thriller that turns everything upside down. Even more so in an imaginary like that of Natasha Preston, where if you stop at her first publications, you only expected some thorns of love between romantic melodramas passed through the filter of modernity on duty.
Surprise and detachment are where you can most enjoy this writer's ability to offer you a plot with traces of love on the edge of the knife. Because at the antipodes of emotions, in the antagonistic of love and hate, with notes of desire, passion and obsession, an inalienable breeding ground ends up being created. Natasha Preston still has a hint of a youthful narrator, but in light of her drift towards the dark, she points to a long-term noir novelist.
Natasha Preston's Top 3 Recommended Novels
Awakening
The resource of the recesses of the mind and its twists and turns to hide a past that nests with the most unexpected prospects of evil. An evil that can be part of the protagonist or perhaps stalk her from where she least expects. Because everyday life is a refuge or a dark forest, depending on the moment and the observer's gaze.
The final trick of this type of story is what the title already anticipates, that awakening to reality splattered with the blood of the past, with that metallic aroma and the blackish stain of already dried blood that has left an inalienable trace for any reader. yearning for the truth beyond appearances.
Scarlett remembers nothing from when she was little: a strange amnesia keeps her earliest childhood hidden. Until an accident causes him to start recovering scattered bits and pieces of his memory, unleashing a series of dark revelations. All these years his family has kept a heartbreaking truth from him ... a truth that is lethal.
The basement
That readings like this are located in the orbit of the youthful is nothing but a faithful reflection of the same best-sellers of the more adult universe. Darkness and fear are part of the human. Morbid is a desire to overcome from the unequivocal challenge of flying over everything, of overcoming those ghosts, of overcoming demons.
The desire for perdition, for peering into the abyss under one's feet, is something that can already be guessed from simply reading plots like this one. It's not a matter of being scared about it, it's part of who we are at 45 or 14 years old.
Four girls locked up by a kidnapper. They are his flowers, his perfect and pure flowers. But how long can they survive inside the basement? A claustrophobic idea also already explored in movies or novels for adults. A more youthful transposition to enjoy a good teenage thriller.
The cabin
A toast to the classic detective novels forged at the mercy of an imaginary like that of Agatha Christie. A reunion with deduction where anyone can be a murderer or an imminent victim ...
A weekend of partying in a remote cabin is just what Mackenzie needs. He wants to have fun with his friends, away from parents and obligations. But after a crazy night two of them die ... murdered.
With no signs of the door being forced open and no trace of a struggle, suspicion falls on the group of friends. Among them there is only one murderer. But none are innocent.
