Following in the wake of other media authors in the journalistic field (a space naturally linked to literature as a chronicle of the times lived), Monica Carrillo already composes a bibliography comparable to other journalists such as Carmen Chaparro, Carlos of Love, Theresa Old o Maxim Orchard.
Of course, in their novelistic version, each of these journalists is more oriented to their tastes through diverse themes that go from the romantic genre to science fiction through the black genre.
In the case of Mónica Carrillo we find a bit with that creative melting pot of the author delighted with telling stories of whatever kind. Always with the preciousness of the form towards the bottom, with the taste for the trope that transforms the presented scene, the action that advances into something endowed with that magic that transcends thanks to how we are told.
Top 3 recommended books by Mónica Carrillo
Naked life
The profession of the novelist can be forged in a thousand ways because the novel is that great canvas, the enormous mosaic, the great tapestry of the creative spirit of the writer. This novel is that work of great dimensions beyond its 288 pages.
Because it is about narrating, achieving the fascinating fit of the most credible characters towards total empathy in the most suggestive plot towards the most intense hook for the reader on duty. If, in addition, Mónica Carrillo continues to display that use of language at times lyrical, the story ends up being conformed as a plot with the vitola of the writer more consolidated than ever. A love story can lose gas if everything is focused towards the pink plot. So Gala's story is much more than a new literary revision of love.
Because on her return home to say goodbye to her grandmother, Gala discovers that, no longer being the same as she was, she can learn and rethink, investigate and discover about her own life, about her family. Nothing better than returning changed by the years and life to face things taken for granted, the shadows and secrets behind appearances...
So yes, once exposed to the very essences of life, family, emotions and secrets, then it is the best time to propose a love that you can hold on to tightly despite the thorns to make the blood flow from the soul. life.
Candela's light
It must be that the name of Candela has that I don't know what great female protagonist. Because it is no longer just a matter of this story by Mónica Carrillo but of the book «Candle»By Juan del Val ...
The point is that in both Candelas we find women subjected to those swings of destiny towards the magical or the dramatic, depending on how the matter is approached. In the vertigo of living, Mónica Carrillo's Candela lets herself go to bring out the best in herself despite the imperatives of reason and supposed conveniences.
But all passion ends up robbing you from the physical to the soul. What is lost in untimely love with its fieryness and blindness, is always gained as a constant feeling of staying alive. How can you not enjoy those moments when someone like Manuel appears to shake everything up.
Only, as usually happens in all cases, there comes a time when security seeks its place and that is when doubts make dreams falter and the hugs that stole the air loosen. What happens when we fall in love with a person who we know is going to complicate our lives?
Candela is a photographer who one day falls in love and runs over her, turning everything upside down. And nothing will be like before. The person responsible for this whirlwind is Manuel, a young model with whom she will live a love story as fascinating as it is addictive.
The emotion of the first kisses, the complicity, the passion. But also the anguish of those who do not receive everything he gives. And the unconditional and magical support of friends. The heads and tails of love. Because life goes on, it always goes on...
La luz de Candela is a beautiful hymn to emotions, a delicate novel full of sensitivity that will excite the reader.
Time. Everything. Craziness
Halfway between the micro-story, the aphorism and the loose verse. A kind of urban poetry that dazzles from the first composition. Because the whole is a charming mix that composes images and sensations, that raises farewells or approaches, sadness or melancholy, despondency or hopes, always through rhetorical figures, tropes that arise from everyday scenes to reach the souls of so many. moments that we all live.
The reader who is looking for continuity in Mónica's early works: "I forgot to tell you I love you" or "La luz de Candela", of course you will not find it here. But it is always interesting to rediscover an author through the prism of his mighty creativity, which leads him to try new things, to experiment with new ideas or simply to express black on white ideas with enough force and entity like the ones in this book.
It may end up happening to the reader like it did to me. From “Time. All. Madness”, turning on the television and discovering this presenter narrating reality is no longer the same as before. Despite the aseptic attitude typical of a news presenter, I now see more humanity in Mónica, which overflows in this work.
On many occasions, the small gathers the essence. The small stories in this book compress well-thought-out ideas, and adjusted to a language that transmits and moves from the measure of words. Literature to read slowly, to meditate on each small chapter, each possible meaning of the words in a set embellished by the image it awakens and the lyrical structure of its structure. Recommended, without a doubt.
