Shooting stars fall, by José Gil Romero and Goretti Irisarri

I like novels that look like movie scripts. I find it a gratifying sensation for the imagination, because it seems as if the scenes were composed much faster, a kind of 3D for the reader, enhanced by that unattainable effect of what was imagined by each one of us.

If we add a fantastic touch to it Tim Burton, and a mystery that enshrines the whole story, I dare say that the book Falling stars it is a great literary work.

Because in the end who dictates what a great work is? You and only you as a reader can be the most accurate critic. For my part, I just leave you MY opinion.

In an evocative nineteenth-century atmosphere, with that aspect of modernity of the moment that exuded in a city like Madrid, strange meteorological events suddenly occur. To find answers we meet two antagonistic researchers. On the part of reason and empiricism, we are presented with the typical scientist of the time. As a representative of the esoteric and the fantastic, we find a young seer whom many consider to be insane, while others confirm the truth of her visions.

The characters are an allegory of the time, an impossible balance between what science already pointed out when mythology continued to alert with the power of evil about any anomaly that occurred.

Madrid is transformed into a fabulous setting. With a game of color and darkness in tune with that society polarized between the tangible and the fantasy.

Perhaps the important thing is not to solve the enigma, whether it is converted into a scientific formula or announced as an end of the world, perhaps the important thing is to see how people believed and how science, in the end, is born of the imagination ...

Or maybe yes, maybe there really is a hell that already reddened the sky of Madrid at the time.

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