Fiction book reviews and critiques
Reissues of suggestive works of science fiction in the absence of new stories with which to feed an imaginary between dystopian and post-apocalyptic in tune with the times. Only Margaret Atwood is not a regular science fiction writer. For her, the scenography accompanies the ideas more ...
A title made hyperbaton because if we say "old blood" in Spanish, the thing is more a matter of hygiene than of any other idea. The question is why look for such an elaborate translation when the original work is called "A Book of bones." Anyway, business decisions aside, in this ...
The human being exposed to the temptations of the devil made psychopathy. You cannot believe in the redemption of sins on earth, not of all at least. In the well where the worst instincts end up cooking and pushing like onslaught of lava that will destroy everything, they coexist ...
It is a fairly frequent phenomenon to find authors of all kinds who end up landing in the black genre in search of that vein of the best-selling literary niche. What is less frequent is discovering a whole superstar of the most traditional noir in Spanish venturing into a different genre. But …
The great writers are those capable of presenting their new plots making us forget at a stroke books or even previous series from which we expected new deliveries. This is the basis for the position of Jo Nesbo at the top of the black genre along with 3 or 4 other authors. Harry ...
It has been a long time since the thriller ban was opened as a deepening of atavistic fears, in the psychological aspect that brings us closer to the demons of the protagonists. The already grown up Lisbeth Salander was a clear example of the take off of this type of noirs. The English writer Abigail ...
There are writers who do not present their novelties in novels but rather give new installments of life, of stark poetry in prose, with its scorch and its pus, with humors of all kinds that sprinkle like discharge, blood or sweat. This is the case of a Garth Greenwell who does not let himself ...
From the Ave Fenix to Ulises or to the very Lazarus that gives this novel its name. These are great myths to represent the human being erecting himself from his defeat, rising from the ground enlarging his shadow. Deep down, the greatest stories in literature have that point of ...
Aviation is land (or rather sky) cultivated for juicy science fiction speculations. One need only remember the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, which so soon swallowed up ships like war fighters, or the langoliers of Stephen King that were devouring the Earth ...
The ancient world is always in fashion. And writers like Irene Vallejo or Madeline Miller are in charge of greening those laures (pun intended) of the most notorious transcendence. Because just as childhood forges the personality of a person, that cradle of our culture that is ancient Greece ...
That is what even the best families are all about. Appearances rule. And that is precisely why this is where the estrangement and alienation from what should be a brand, because in the past everything was very different. There was a time when family was synonymous with trust, with sincerity. Everything flew ...
The black literature dream team, the incombustibles Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, return in the trope-hundredth installment of an Inspector Pendergast who will walk on the brink of collapse after so many cases on the tightrope. But it is what special agents have, they are nobody without tension, ...