El guardian invisible by Dolores Redondo
Hi girls!
After a long time I want to post another reiview of a book that I've particularly appreciated and that I think you might like.
(The previous one l loved was The Martian by Andy Weir from which the movie with Matt Damon was based, but I've admit you must be a real die-hard science lover to appreciate it! ^_^)
The book I want to write about in this post, instead, it's a thiller and it's been defined as the 1st bestseller in Spain. I don't know if it's true, though!
I found it pretty interesting because the setting is in a part of Spain I don't know very well: the valley of the river Batzan in the Navarre, a region in the north that adjoining the Basque region. In the book there are a lot of references to the Basque culture and I appreciated them (even if in some case they were a bit too didactic and didn't really add anything to the story) because they described an area of Spain completely different from the ones I got to know during my travels. I guess the Navarra and the Basque regions are as different from the Andalusia as the South of Italy is from the Alps! Am I right, Mercy?
The protagonist of the book is Amaia Salazar, a female detective who is forced to return to her hometown Elizondo to investigate about the deaths of several young girls. The plot revolves around the investigation but also about Amaia's relationship with her family, especially her sisters, who remained in Elizondo to look after the family's confectionery while she went away to Pamplona. Behind her estragement there is a trauma in her past, caused by her insane mother who has a profound disdain for her and not for her sisters.
Flora, the oldest of the sisters is a hard and mean woman who never really believed Amaia when she said what her mother did, Rosaura is more understaing of Amaia's problems but she's in a rough patch of her life herself. Flora isn't a nice characters, she's strong and very good at her job, but she's also too self-centered and mean, and she thinks she's better than anyone else. I don't really like her! But I'm intrigued about the story behind Amaia's mother attitude toward her own daughter, why did she hate only the youngest of her daughters? Does Flora has the same mental defect, that makes her devoid of any empathy toward the others?
In the book several characters are introduced but many of the storylines are only sketched out, I hope in the next two books of this trilogy will satisfy my curiosity!
The only character that left me meh...is James, Amaia's husband. It seems as he exists only as a her appendix, he's always there to comfort and love her but he's a bit flat, without a real personality; all what we know about him is that he is a rich American sculptor and that's he's perfect and Amaia loves him very much. -_- I hope he gets his development as the trilogy proceed!
All in all, I suggest you all to read this book if you like whodduit book, among with familiar history and a tiny bit of traditional folklore.
Paola
After a long time I want to post another reiview of a book that I've particularly appreciated and that I think you might like.
(The previous one l loved was The Martian by Andy Weir from which the movie with Matt Damon was based, but I've admit you must be a real die-hard science lover to appreciate it! ^_^)
The book I want to write about in this post, instead, it's a thiller and it's been defined as the 1st bestseller in Spain. I don't know if it's true, though!
I found it pretty interesting because the setting is in a part of Spain I don't know very well: the valley of the river Batzan in the Navarre, a region in the north that adjoining the Basque region. In the book there are a lot of references to the Basque culture and I appreciated them (even if in some case they were a bit too didactic and didn't really add anything to the story) because they described an area of Spain completely different from the ones I got to know during my travels. I guess the Navarra and the Basque regions are as different from the Andalusia as the South of Italy is from the Alps! Am I right, Mercy?
The protagonist of the book is Amaia Salazar, a female detective who is forced to return to her hometown Elizondo to investigate about the deaths of several young girls. The plot revolves around the investigation but also about Amaia's relationship with her family, especially her sisters, who remained in Elizondo to look after the family's confectionery while she went away to Pamplona. Behind her estragement there is a trauma in her past, caused by her insane mother who has a profound disdain for her and not for her sisters.
Flora, the oldest of the sisters is a hard and mean woman who never really believed Amaia when she said what her mother did, Rosaura is more understaing of Amaia's problems but she's in a rough patch of her life herself. Flora isn't a nice characters, she's strong and very good at her job, but she's also too self-centered and mean, and she thinks she's better than anyone else. I don't really like her! But I'm intrigued about the story behind Amaia's mother attitude toward her own daughter, why did she hate only the youngest of her daughters? Does Flora has the same mental defect, that makes her devoid of any empathy toward the others?
In the book several characters are introduced but many of the storylines are only sketched out, I hope in the next two books of this trilogy will satisfy my curiosity!
The only character that left me meh...is James, Amaia's husband. It seems as he exists only as a her appendix, he's always there to comfort and love her but he's a bit flat, without a real personality; all what we know about him is that he is a rich American sculptor and that's he's perfect and Amaia loves him very much. -_- I hope he gets his development as the trilogy proceed!
All in all, I suggest you all to read this book if you like whodduit book, among with familiar history and a tiny bit of traditional folklore.
Paola