Fiction book reviews and critiques
Alfaguara Novel Prize 2017 The transparent city to which the characters in this story arrive is the metaphor of so many dystopias that many other writers have imagined in light of the adverse circumstances that have occurred throughout history. Such ...
I have always liked stories in which everyday heroes appear. It may be a little corny. But the truth is that finding a story in which you can put yourself in the shoes of that truly exceptional person, who faces cruelty, cynicism, abuse, ...
Lost in Space. That must be the best situation to do introspection and really discover how tiny the existence is, or the greatness of that very existence that has led you there, to a vast cosmos like nothing dotted with stars. The world is a memory ...
For lovers of the series The Ministry of Time, comes this literary work highly coupled to the original series. From the Middle Ages to World War II, a chain of missions leads agents past the fascinating doors that the Ministry reserves for the necessary ...
Every living being is subjected to circadian rhythms, established by the hours of light and the darkness of the night. However, the animals that live in the areas closest to the poles, where the effect of the midnight sun occurs, have known how to adapt to this particular ...
Guilt is that gift with which humans leave Paradise. From childhood we learn to be guilty for many things, until we make her an inseparable life partner. Perhaps we should all receive a letter like the one Valeria Santaclara, the protagonist of this book, receives. With the …
The world passes to the rhythm of a giant crime novel. Hand in hand with globalization, the dark scenarios that not so long ago the authors of crime novels were in charge of transferring to fiction, have taken a qualitative leap. The world is the market to be corrupted by the mafias. The …
When you experience a war, you don't always escape it by leaving the conflict zone. In the aseptic consideration of this last term, other concepts existed before, such as: house, childhood, home or life ... Heda left her home or conflict zone accompanied by her family. The promise of ...
It is curious to think of the first approaches to the Bible when we are very young. In a reality still in the making and governed for the most part by childhood fantasies, the scenes of the Bible were assumed to be perfectly true, without any metaphorical sense, nor was it necessary. ...
Love stories, as a plot for a novel, can give much more of themselves than their pink aspect. In fact, they can be a fascinating common thread to introduce us to characters who live and feel with great intensity, but who also weather their shadows, the dark parts that are ...
The economic crisis and the undeniable parallel crisis of values is already a choral story. A microcosm of silenced voices amid cold statistics. Data and more data conveniently cooked for the pride of economic interests and political clappers of all kinds. The kisses in the ...
Choose. Freedom should basically be that. The consequences come later. Nothing heavier than being free to choose your destiny. Mario, the protagonist of this story, made his choice. Career promotion or love are always a good excuse to tip vital choices to one side or ...