The multifaceted Vanessa montfort It offers us, in its already considerable bibliography, a wonderful haven of humanity. It may sound grandiose, but in a publishing market full of darker narrative proposals (without the intention of criticizing trends), the contrast of Montfort's work serves precisely to brighten those other, more relaxed stories.
A rest that, however, should not be confused with a lethargy of the plots, quite the opposite. That is one of the great virtues of this author who in all her novels has been able to make balance and narrative tempo tools that end up building very solid stories as well as dynamic ones.
An interesting aspect of Vanessa Montfort's narrative it is the protagonism conferred on many occasions to women. Female preponderance with a point of commendable naturalness towards that effective equality even in fictional worlds.
Women who move through the plots with the brilliance of the fullest characters, without excuses, claims or blame. Women who earn their space just for the sake of it and who, upon reaching their fullness, are capable of showing both their beauty and their wounds.
But as I say, this projection of the feminine is just that, one more aspect in a narrative scenario that emerged from a powerful imaginary that is always worth delving into.
Top 3 recommended books by Vanessa Montfort
Women buying flowers
A current novel with an allegory tinge of the female universe in today's society. The interaction of the six women that make up this narrative mosaic takes us into a feminine empathy without exceptions.
The experiences of Casandra, Marina, Gala, Vitoria and Aurora, plus the voice of the narrator herself, her past, her faults, her hopes and her wishes reach up to the last option of considering the figure of women.
Around them an extensive symbol of flowers capable of transmitting longing for those who are no longer there, or the aroma of strong desire or the color necessary to address what remains of hope. Why do each of these women buy flowers? From the simple transaction at the El Jardín del Ángel florist shop, parallel worlds unfold on some occasions and intersecting ones on others.
The flowers are the doubts and the answers of each protagonist in a novel scenario that life presents them and that they try to decorate with a color that finally turns them all into petals of the same ovary of the rose.
The dream of the chrysalis
It is clear that when an author finds his or her fetish story, one that fulfills creative aspirations contrasted with readers' appreciation, the abundance of similar topics is almost a debt to so many new readers who have been found by word of mouth.
And this novel draws on his immediate success earlier in time: Women who buy flowers. Three years have passed since Vanessa Montfort's best-rated novel hit bookstores to end up being translated into different languages.
Now we find this new metaphorical intention turned into a novel, a new allegory that starts from the idea of the chrysalis and the confinement waiting for a better life, for a better being born from ourselves. Only, sometimes, the emergence of the chrysalis requires someone to take us out of that larval state. Patricia is immersed in one of those moments of necessary change from the inertia assumed as all existence. Greta is that person who appears out of nowhere to shake the consciousness of self-imposed confinement, of self-inflicted guilt in the face of worldly demands.
In the character of Greta, Patricia will find the exception, the break with her nullifying dynamic. From that meeting, the passion for the greatest adventure is reborn: living.
New York Mythology
When you visit New York, you end up with a strange but pleasant feeling of unreality. Something like walking through a fictional city from a movie or a gigantic theater stage.
And surely because of some sensation similar to this one, Vanessa ended up writing this story that shifts between almost opposite genres, suspense and romantic. In its essence, the novel keeps you in suspense about a case of serial killers linked to a novel that some wicked mind is taking charge of representing precisely in that vast theater of the Big Apple.
But the meeting of Daniel and Laura, two souls with their lights and their shadows also ends up entering us in one of those love stories amid the harshness of the circumstances that end up uniting them as improvised characters in the darkest tragicomedy of a playwright convinced that the death is always the best ending ...
Other recommended books by Vanessa Montfort
The sisterhood of bad daughters
Mother-daughter relationships as a bottomless well of experiences from which to compose diversity of vertices... sometimes closed angles, sometimes edges capable of wounding. In search of flexibility to compose new vital geometries.
What would you say to your mother that you have never told her? And if there were things that you do not suspect one of the other?
Mónica trains dogs for the National Police although she has always wanted to be a detective. But she has a lot with a mother who is always attracting attention and with whom she has a hard time dealing. Through the neighborhood dog walker, she reconnects with five old friends: one who acts as a mother to her own mother, another who felt abandoned and used by her parent, another who is fighting for her to meet her sooner. that he doesn't recognize her...
Together they form the group of "Las malas hijas" because although they try, they never feel good enough. Will they manage to overcome their differences, help each other and survive in a world that increasingly demands more of them as daughters and mothers?
