Adventure novel reviews
At first, the translation of gangster literature to anywhere other than Chicago or New York sounds pretentious. But in the end I always tend to pay attention to the daring, to that creative insolence that in this case leads us to import a distinctly American imaginary to adapt it ...
There are authors capable of becoming a genre in themselves. The late Michael Chrichton was his own-label scientific fantasy. In a beautiful communion between science and adventure or thriller, this author always dazzled millions of readers eager for his full proposals ...
Since Herman Melville introduced us to his whale Moby Dick, many other novels with marine blog aspirations have been lavished on these overseas adventures. Although it is true that Melville's novel, published in the middle of the XNUMXth century, had a major point of transcendental travel, from the ...
A fresh new novel by John Grisham that suddenly abandons the judicial thriller to enter that sort of adventure novel that turns criminals and thieves into adventurers in search of glory, power or money. Because the gang of thieves that assaults the Firestone library of ...
Juan Urbano is a unique character from Benjamín Prado, an alter ego who served as a journalist in local columns of the newspaper El País and who later took up a new, fuller life in the author's fictional narrative. If I remember correctly, the last book of Benjamín Prado ...
Here, the blogger who subscribes has been one more from Logroño for almost a decade. So bringing to this space the author Milagros Frías, the last prize for the novel in the City of Logroño 2017, has seemed fully appropriate. As for the lucky winning novel, it is presented to us as ...
With the last vibrations of Eva, his previous novel in the Falcó series, still reverberating in our reading memory, Pérez Reverte bursts in with a transitional novel between Falcó's proposals and what comes next. Be that as it may, this novel is presented as a fable with a strong symbolic charge ...
Many analogies can be found in terms of an intention perhaps not so much sought after but achieved, between this historical novel and the recent adventure play "The Legend of the Two Pirates", by María Vila. The similarities start from the point of claim in the image of a pirate woman. ...
A book that entertains and cultivates must always be given special consideration. It is the case of this novel The many. By boat I soon come up with many interpretations of the title of the novel (always subjective after a gratifying read). Because the title has a material meaning that will soon be ...
The XIII Tusquets Editores de Novela Award 2017 brings us a unique story. The man secluded in nature, or liberated from society in it. A Robinson of whom we will soon want to know his reasons for isolation. The Mute wanders in his particular kingdom of nothingness, of emptiness ...
If you read this book, you will end up bringing a dog, probably a mastiff, into your home. He had seen emotional movies starring different animals. The usual nobility and unconditional love of many of our pets and domestic animals have a connection point that we do not always find between ...
More and more women are taking center stage in novels of all kinds. To the point that citing this obviousness as the beginning of a review already sounds strange. But the truth is that if we go back 30 years, it was not so easy to find women with papers, in ...