There were days when love was lost, and sanity, and every other hint of humanity in the plots of a one-time novel. Javier Castillo already a publishing phenomenon par excellence in Spain. A phenomenon that also already knocks on the doors of many other European countries to which these black, shocking stories are beginning to arrive, fresh from the dark waters of the wells of the genre.
If we start labeling, Javier Castillo It could belong to a generation of practically millennial black genre writers. A group that would spearhead the worldwide phenomenon Joel Dicker. Young authors who assault the first sales positions in a combination of the most stark thriller with ecstatic rhythms, all around absolutely vivid characters whose destinies twists and extreme situations are glimpsed.
From the outset, the disappearance of Miranda Huff evokes another illustrious recent disappearance, that of the aforementioned Dicker: the journalist Stephanie mailer. But the plot ends up dismantling the wink between the two novels.
In this novel by Javier Castillo disappearance points more to an emotional terrain in which Javier Castillo tends to express a fascinating potential for narrative tension. When Ryan arrives at the bucolic cabin away from the world, in which he tries to force a reconciliation with Miranda, his wife, he soon discovers the devastating image of blood as the only clue to a disappearance that confronts him with that maddening feeling of unreality in the face of it. Sinister.
Starting from this scene, with that rhythm that Castillo has already made great virtue of, we visualize those details, those clues in half light, those links from the past and those buried guilt in everyday life ...
Nothing is accidental, as is almost always guessed in a suspense story. The choice of the secluded house in the forest begins to take on a more complete meaning, outlined by some wicked mind that seeks revenge or simply relishes its ominous plan. Because the house already hid other secrets before Miranda and Ryan even got there.
Evil always plans its plan like a macabre and perfect circle around a stage. Everything that happened and what happens will be suffocated by the silent forest.
You can now buy the novel "Everything that happened with Miranda Huff", the new book by Javier Castillo, here: