With his novel The Smile of Women, Nicolas Barreau achieved that takeoff dreamed of by every writer. Of course, there is a lot of dedication behind it, as always; of strenuous effort, as almost always. But the point is to write the right novel at the right time. It must be about that or just being touched by some kind of luck.
Either way, in this book The coffee of little miracles, this author shows why he has reached the top of the romance novel genre. Sometimes it seems as if the readers of romantics are easy types to conquer through honeyed, simple stories, of princes and princesses and splendorous endings.
But it shouldn't be so much the same when an author like Nicolas appears, turns the genre around, raises it as something else, and thereby manages to draw readers with absolute forcefulness.
What Nicolas has done in this book is to write about today's romances but with a point of mystery. Its protagonist, Nelly, is an insecure young woman, the typical girl in whom a great inner world is guessed, self-conscious by fears and subjective conditions.
But thanks to that inner world, to that restlessness that ends up impeling her to move in any direction, this romantic story takes off towards paths more typical of that genre of mystery. Without a doubt it is an interesting balance between a pink plot, with a touch of comedy, and an interesting enigma in which we enter thanks to a mimicry with Nelly.
But of course ... love. We cannot finally extract another main connotation from this story. Everything ends up moving by, for and towards love. What Nelly ends up discovering, the biggest enigma that will open up for her is being in love, she can find herself more comfortable with herself, enjoying caresses and kisses that, somehow, end up making us better.
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