Like the most sinister of fate's tricks, a disappearance sows life with disturbing uncertainties and disturbing shadows. Even more so if it happens to a 3-year-old daughter. Because there is added the heavy guilt capable of devouring you.
In the new novel by Javier Castillo we approach that sinvivir clinging to the slowest and darkest seconds. In this case reaching a long time that does not cure an iota. Because in other recent novels with a similar starting proposal such as «i'm not a monster", from Carmen Chaparro, the matter moves in the frenzy of the search against the clock. But in this new Castillo novel, the matter moves to the future, in the style of a Joel dicker master of flash back, both determined to fascinate us with the trompe l'oeil of the past, the present and the future.
Nothing more disturbing than discovering how out of despair prolonged for years may sprout a little hope. Only Kiera, lost at 3 years old, no longer seems to be the same girl five years later.
The arrival of the unmistakable proof of its existence after so long a time surprises everyone, even the bewildered parents who hope to be able to abandon such a long nightmare of unforeseeable consequences.
Sometimes an outside focus like that of Miren Triggs can serve the cause of the investigation. Because Kiera is alive, without a doubt. The problem is knowing her whereabouts and discovering what mischievous mind is capable of manifesting to her parents with that cold harshness, so much time later, that she continues to inhabit this world, but that perhaps she no longer belongs to them...
So Miren Triggs, a journalism student at Columbia University, is attracted to the case and initiates a parallel investigation that leads her to unravel aspects of her past that she believed were forgotten, and that is, her personal story, as well as the Kiera's, it's full of unknowns.
If the ways of the Lord are inscrutable, the labyrinthine paths to evil and hell can end up making you lose your mind in the Dantesque journey towards the truth.
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