The ocean of desktop publishing is a good place to dive in search of some interesting plot treasure to enjoy in the most unexpected way. It is clear that indie rules in the literary world. No critic better than the readers who echo the best self-published works and who, in some cases, help these works finally reach the goal of the great publishing labels.
For me, an amateur reader with a greater fondness for the noir genre, it is always a real find when I come across a novel like "Emily", and I find myself hooked on reading it as soon as I start, from its first pages.
The synopsis of the work reads like this:
Emily and her little sister Luci live with their mother, a woman capable of repudiating her own daughters for whom she does not feel the slightest affection.
Located in a small and quiet town, they will be involved in a twisted and macabre story in which abuse, mistreatment and disgusting events take place that will be revealed by an FBI agent, but ... what role will Emily and Luci play in all this?
Certainly the summary does not go into detail beyond the initial scenography hovering over the final question, that question that quotes the reader with its most disturbing nature.
More than enough to cause the desired effect. If you walk in, you are immediately thrown as a reader into an avid read that does not go around the bush and that advances to the frenetic rhythm of some spooky events.
Every crime novel writer must know how to handle the ace up his sleeve, that kind of lattice that prevents him from seeing the reality of the case and that ends up exploding as a masterful twist.
In this case we are faced with the crudest human ambivalence between good and evil, contradictions and appearances. There is no better twist than ending up knowing that hidden side of such particular protagonists as Emily and Luci.
I recently read an article in which it was pointed out that literature is also going to tend to the brief, to the synthesis, to the conciseness. A short novel like "Emily" has all the ingredients to satisfy a modern-day reader, yearning for suggestive, intense, fast-paced stories…, but perfectly fitted into a solid plot.
You can now buy the novel Emily, a book by Marta Maceda Gil, here: