Before anything, I'd like to say that even though this blog is written in English, I recommend you to do as I did and read the books I criticise in their original language (if you can). This way you'll like them much more and you'll find astute word games and double meanings which will help you read the book in all of its potential.

December 26, 2011

Hijo del Hombre - Félix Ballesteros Rivas

Criticism:

Unfortunately, I've been unable to discover the English name of this book.
It is a  hard scifi book, which started suiting my extremely low expectations but ended with me petrified, staring at its strange front cover. For me, the beginning was somewhat slow and dense, too technical, and full of sentences that were way too large and a not very appealing or defined plot. But, slowly, as I advanced through it, it grabbed me until I read the last chapter in one go in near dehydration. It is a book in which the reader empathises a lot with the main characters, but in a very subtle way; and even though because of its hard scifi genre it may seem at the start that it won't be as deep, mature or interesting as other books, to me it seemed much more moral and philosophical than most of today's bestsellers. It is true that it doesn't create as deep and brutal an impression to the reader as other books, but I'd recommend it to readers of Jordi Sierra i Fabra, for example, despite the difference in genre.

Author's official webpage: http://www.felixballesterosrivas.es/

 

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