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Written by Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects is a mystery novel with a suffocating atmosphere that is ultimately wasted by a plot that takes too long to become interesting. Its protagonist may be fascinating, but that doesn’t compensate for the slow pace at which her investigation is carried out.
The story follows reporter Camille Preaker when she is assigned to cover a series of murders and disappearances of children in her hometown of Wind Gap, where she needs to reencounter her family and her hateful mother.
The book opens by problematizing maternal love, reporting a case of neglect that led to the death of a woman’s offspring. The narrative is concerned with [...]
Giordano Bruno, friar, philosopher, and the protagonist of Heresy, was persecuted by the Inquisition at the end of the sixteenth century for preaching the infinity of the universe and its heliocentric model, preceding even the famous Galileo. It is said that his last speech, when he was finally captured by the Inquisition in 1600 and sentenced to death for heresy, was “Perhaps you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it”. His well-documented history serves as the basis for the making of a thriller that, despite having an interesting historical setting, fails to bring together the elements that form its various plotlines.
If it is said that a reader lives a thousand lives before they die, how about an author? Telling the life story of Julian Carax, a mysterious writer, and that of Daniel Sempere, the 11 years old boy who picks, from the labyrinthine shelves of a forgotten library exactly the last book written by Carax, The Shadow of the Wind is a book about the art of reading and writing.
When Daniel Sempere is led by his father to an enigmatic place in the historical heart of Barcelona, called “The Cemetery of Forgotten Books”, he has the difficult task of deciding, of the thousands of lost volumes before him, which would be the [...]