Whether you started the year looking to save money or canceled your Netflix subscription because of its measures to crack down on account sharing, you’re going to need a new source of good fiction. We recommend something vintage such as a novel and thus rest, incidentally, for a while from the screen. These novels are real recommendations from real readers who have confessed to us which books have had them more in suspense than a streaming platform series.
FEMINIST APPROACH: the girlsEmma Cline
Emma Cline was freely inspired by a famous episode of the American black chronicle: the massacre perpetrated by Charles Manson and his clan. But what interested her is not the figure of the psychopath, but the those angelic girls who committed a creepy crime without losing their smile. In this way, we are transported to California in the summer of 1969. Evie is an insecure and lonely teenager who notices a group of girls in a park: they dress in a careless way, they go barefoot and they seem to live happy and carefree, on the sidelines. of the rules. Days later, one of them (Suzanne, a few years older than her) will invite her to accompany them. They live on a lonely ranch and are part of a commune that revolves around Russell, a frustrated musician, charismatic, manipulator, leader, guru…
The Girls: 748 (Compacts)
TRUE CRIME: the city of the livingNicola Lagiola
This is the true story of the murder that shocked Italy. In March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two young men from a good family decided to invite Luca Varani, a boy they barely knew, to a party where they offered him drugs and money in exchange for sex. They had fun until they started torturing him and ended up killing him. He was 23 years old and the son of a humble family, a good boy who made a living as he could. From prison, one of the murderers said that “they wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.” The writer Nicola Lagioia became obsessed with the case and dedicated four years of his life to this story, which is an investigation into human nature under the silence of the empty streets of the eternal city.
The City of the Living (Random House)
SUPERNATURAL TERROR: Our night partMariana Enriquez
A few years ago, during the confinement of the coronavirus, this novel was the escape route for many people. In its pages, a father and a son cross Argentina by road. These are the years of the military junta, there are controls by armed soldiers and tension in the environment. The son’s name is Gaspar and his father tries to protect him from the fate that has been assigned to him. His mother died under unclear circumstances and, like her father, he is also called to be a medium in a secret society, the Order, which contacts the Darkness in search of eternal life through heinous rituals. In them it is vital to have a medium, but the fate of these beings endowed with special powers is cruel, because their physical and mental exhaustion is fast and relentless.
Our night part: 636 (Hispanic Narratives)
COMIC TERROR: Book Club Guide to Killing VampiresGrady Hendrix
The only thing that keeps Patricia Campbell alive is her book club: a small group of women united by their love of true crime novels. One afternoon she is savagely attacked by an elderly neighbor of hers, which leads her to meet her attractive nephew. James is a well-read man of the world who will arouse feelings in Patricia that she hadn’t had in years. But, when on the other side of the city some children begin to disappear, You’ll begin to suspect that this is more of a criminal than a flesh-and-blood replica of Brad Pitt.. James will gradually enter Patricia’s daily life trying to take over everything he considers his, including her book club.
Book Club’s Guide to Killing Vampires (Grady Hendrix Library)
THRILLER: Trilogy Red QueenJuan Gomez Jurado
Antonia Scott is special. Special. She is not a police officer or criminalist. She has never wielded a gun or worn a badge, and yet she has solved dozens of crimes. But it’s been a while since Antonia hasn’t left her penthouse in Lavapiés. The things that she has lost of her matter to her far more than the things that are waiting out there. She doesn’t receive visitors either. That’s why she doesn’t like anything, nothing, when she hears some unknown footsteps going up the stairs to the top floor. Whoever she is, Antonia is sure that she is coming for her. And she likes it even less. A phenomenon that has hooked 2,000,000 readers.
Red Queen Trilogy (pack edition with: Red Queen | Black Wolf | White King) (The Plot)
MILLENNIAL LIFE: all i know about loveDolly Alderton
This is the great word-of-mouth phenomenon of recent years with half a million copies sold. The book narrates in the first person the passage from adolescence to adult life of a young woman who wanders around looking for herself, failing personally and professionally, surviving with a low account and running into heartbreak at every corner. . And, despite this, she is enjoying and squeezing every important moment in life as only a twenty-something knows how to do.
Everything I know about love (Novel)
HISTORICAL: saga julia domnaSantiago Posteguillo
It is 192 AD Several men fight for an empire but Julia, daughter of kings, mother of Caesars and wife of emperor, thinks of something more ambitious: a dynasty. Rome is under the control of Commodus, a mad emperor. The Senate conspires to end the tyrant and the most powerful military governors could launch a coup: Albino in Britain, Severus on the Danube or Nigro in Syria. Commodus retains his wives to avoid his rebellion and Julia, Severo’s wife, thus becomes a hostage. Suddenly, Rome burns. A fire ravages the city. Is it a disaster or an opportunity? Five men prepare to fight to the death for power. They think the game is about to start. But for Julia the game has already begun. He knows that only a woman can forge a dynasty.
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