The first thing I thought about with this book was the movie Shutter Island, with Di Caprio as a mental patient who hides himself in his madness so as not to face the cruel personal and family reality that surrounds him. And I remembered this novel at that same point of ...
The women's book label finds its proper promotional location in this issue. It already happened to me in the case of Una familia imperfecta, by Pepa Roma. It is something that I do not quite understand. Literature is for everyone, according to taste, nothing more. Anyway, commercial arguments aside, in ...
There are few of us who long for the return of Lisbeth Salander in the fifth installment of the Millennium series. Stieg Larsson's heritage is prolific in new books, thanks to the fascinating universe that the ill-fated author imagined, and that captivated so many readers when he had already ...
The classic crime novel assumes evil as a necessary scenario in its development, as a part of society to reflect in order to achieve its end, to show the vileness of the world in its most drastic form, homicide. Few authors consider the underlying moral dilemma in almost every novel ...
Novels that are presented as a mystery to unravel have always lured me. If this mystery also has certain ties to a real history, and in this case nothing less than the recent history of Spain, without a doubt the plot has won me as a starting point. ...
A story about the fourth estate subjected to the third degree. That would be the headline that comes to mind to present this novel. If recently I was talking about the first novel by actor Pablo Rivero, today it's time to get to know Javier Bernal's second novel. In this case, two newcomers with very ...
The publishing market shakes every time a new work by Ken Follett is announced. It is not for less, because we are talking about the best-selling author par excellence. His literary career has found in historical fiction a market niche that he would make entirely his world niche. Enter to …
Literature sometimes takes unpredictable directions, like any other art or creative facet, however. The stellar appearance of LunaDangelis, pseudonym of the young Mallorcan writer of this novel, arouses suspicions, certain envies and an undeniable confusion in the literary world in general. But, in my humble opinion I think ...
Youth summer readings are changing a lot. From the unforgettable Five we have moved on to more sophisticated and elaborate stories. We can find works of fantasy or science fiction youth themes, as well as narratives that address that adolescent world. They are just two examples, but very representative of what ...
It never hurts to find a crime novel that is capable of offering a point of humor, no matter how contradictory it sounds. It is not an easy task for the author to summarize these two aspects so apparently distant in theme and development. Sophie Henaff dared and succeeded with the first ...
There is a disjointed stream of humor novels between the absurd, the surreal and the tragic. Let's say that I just created this stream myself. It happened to me when I discovered the hilarious coincidences between this book The Soldier by Paul Beatty and the copy Sakamura and tourists without ...
I think I looked at this book with the notion of finding some plot in the style Stephen King. But the shots are not there, nothing to see. The proposal of the book Fire by Joe Hill has a meeting point with the novel I am a legend by Richard Matheson. A scientific plot ...