Adolescence is a fascinating and complex period, especially in its most psychological aspect. The proximity to maturity and the awakening of sexuality is palpable from that long frontier in which you still do not know if it is appropriate to play or if what you have to do is discover the ...
If Ian Ranking says that a detective novel is addictive, it will be a matter of taking it seriously. I must have thought something like this when I saw this crime novel set in Kenya. The unusual scenarios for this genre, usually arouse some unfair prejudices, but the truth is that it finally deserves the ...
I had never stopped to read a blatantly animalistic work. But when I consulted wikipedia to find out about this author, Ana Paula Maia, I considered that at least I would find something different. Influences such as Dostoevsky, Tarantino or Sergio Leone, considered thus, intermingled, announced a plot, at least, different. And so it is. ...
When crime novels plunge directly into the quagmire of power and its unfortunately frequent corruption, the resulting stories are shocking in their hurtful reflection with reality, a stinking reality clothed in makeshift moral appearances. The cases that are usually presented to the private investigator Dolores Morales ...
There are authors who take their time to retake a series. This is the case of Anne Holt, who let almost a decade pass to return with renewed strength. Probably her different social and political assignments, plus some ailment, were sufficient reasons to keep her away from the literary world. For the rest, ...
The effervescent decade of the sixties in much of the Western world was not so in a Spain weighed down for decades by Francoism. At the time I already reviewed the novel "Today is bad but tomorrow is mine", by Salvador Compán, and which presented the constricted space ...
In the days of World War II, the identity of those who were first hated, then repudiated, and finally sought out ended up reeling between feelings of guilt and misunderstanding. European citizens of any country were torn between belonging to an unfortunate origin such as the Jewish people, and conscience ...
Breaking with the established is not easy. Doing it with respect to family plans is even more so. Pedro hates the military career, to which his ancestors belonged. At twenty, the boy is more oriented towards the fields of thought, and opts for science ...
Sometimes I observe my four-year-old son and I get the typical question of the most inquisitive couples, only in a reflective way: What is he thinking? And the truth is that, putting myself in their shoes, with the difficulty that adults suppose to retake those ages of ...
Especially traumatic moments are a bit like that. The feeling of unreality causes a kind of unfolding. An exhibition in front of the broken mirror of reality. It is easy to understand, then, the fantasy that this book plunges us into If cats disappeared from the world. It may not happen ...
There are romance novels and romance novels. And although it seems the same, the difference is marked by the depth of the plot. I do not want to detract from the novels of this genre that devote themselves to recounting the life and work of two lovers in the face of an impossible love (due to thousands of circumstances), many ...
Undoubtedly, Tessa Leoni is one of the most emblematic researchers of the powerful incorporation of women to the protagonism of crime novels. And the case that is presented to us in this new installment: Sin Compromiso brings a new interpretation of the genre as an explosive combination of thriller, policeman and black. ...