Fiction book reviews and critiques
The life of Jesus Christ was that first great disruptive story from the idea of a human being conceived "magic" through. Only that there are characters in even more anomalous situations. Worse than being stateless is being stateless. Beings arrived in the world marked by a destiny of uprooting, from the…
Clara Peñalver's suspense novels are not yet limited to endless sagas. The thing seems to go more towards creative flashes that lead to a single story. And the thing has its advantages because one creates the monsters and their antagonists and then forgets them to be the...
The fascinating story of Plautilla Bricci, the first modern female architect, in 1624th century Rome. One day in XNUMX a father takes his daughter to the beach of Santa Severa to see the remains of a chimerical creature, a stranded whale. The father, Giovanni Briccio, called the Briccio, …
The stories focused on small communities on the edge of the world already awaken that feeling of concern about the unknown. From hippies to sects, communities outside the madding crowd have a strange magnetism. Mainly if one looks at the alienation between imposed mediocrities, …
From the humid mists of Baztán to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Small or large storms that seem to bring, among their black clouds, another type of electrical magnetism of evil. The rain is sensed in its dead calm, the great storms are rising like winds that first whisper...
In this matter of hotels as refuges from reality from the deepest estrangement from the comfortable that never makes a home, I always remember Oscar Sipán's guide to invented hotels. Hotel rooms where characters who hardly have time to occupy that space and whose ghosts …
More than 20 years have passed since the first disillusioned Mario Conde in the world that was presented to us in «Past Perfect». This is the good thing about paper heroes, they can always rise from their ashes to the delight of those of us who let ourselves be carried away by their paths more or less...
Agatha Christie had not yet been born when James Redding Ware had already published this novel with the essential role of a woman at the controls of an investigation. The year was 1864. So no matter how original and disruptive a work may be, a precedent always appears. If even the…
The most established facts in the popular imagination hang from the thread of the official chronicles. History shapes national livelihoods and legends; all pasted under the umbrella of the patriotic sense of the day. And yet we can all intuit that there will be more or less certain things. Because the epic is always...
Beyond the series of each particular protagonist, there is always the feeling of a separate life that remains veiled. On this occasion this volume of stories comes to cover those gaps that give more entity if possible to the character of Rocco Schianove de Manzini. Because in the little ones...
The moment when life forks. The dilemmas imposed by simple chance, by destiny or by a God enchanted to repeat the scene of Abraham with that of his son Isaac, only with unpredictable variations of the ending. The point is that it seems as if the existence...
Don Juan José Benítez knows how to throw the pisto like nobody else. His Trojan Horse series is worthy of superior intelligence in substance, form, and marketing. Fact and fiction make up an inseparable chain that moves with each installment like the DNA dance marking the fate of the turn. Y …