City of Lost Souls - Cassandra Clare

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Once again, Cassandra Clare uses her imaginative bestseller series, the Mortal Instruments, to grab the reader until the end. Although not too deep, this series remains extremely addictive and is one of these books that feels like water, running wild until its end. It absorbs the reader completely, and I must say that the perfect readers would be girls between the ages of 10 and 25.
However, I will warn that

Infernal Devices- Cassandra Clare

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This series is based again on the story of Shadowhunters, the only difference being that in this one the main characters being Jace, Clary, Alec, etc's ancestors. They are written in the same style as the other one, and it is also written to be a bestseller for girls between 10 and 18 years old.
The books are called Mechanic Angel, Mechanic Prince and Mechanic Princess- although for

Si te digo que la burra es negra...

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This book, it's title based in a  proverb which says: "Si te digo que la burra es negra es porque tengo los pelos en la mano", is a recollection of very short stories which are very different from each other, but which all possess great feeling. There are all types of stories, as each one is written by a different author: humour, philosophical, romantic, tragedy, abstract... and each one is written in a completely different and surprising way, but at the same time completely artistic and deeply literary. In them, literary experience can be easily sensed, as the great work that has been put into them. This is why the message of some of them is deep but not obvious, and they let the reader think about what they say.

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Narcosis- Sam Edwards

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This book is very interesting and mostly realistic, that clearly shows us the way in which the author sees the world. Very well written, it is a quick read and the argument is original and interesting, making one think about the corruption in our world. Even so, I must say that the introduction to the action is too large, and although interesting, it gives the impression of trying to create space. In the other hand, the action is very quick and grippy; and very comfortable to read. The end is also a very easy read, and I couldn't stop reading until I finished it, but the moralising intention is, for me, a bit too obvious and I think that if it were a bit more hidden it would be more effective and the reader would be able to make whatever they like out of it.
The book doesn't have a specific genre: it has a bit of action, romance, and it is sometimes quite hard. It is nothing too intense, but it reflects the indifference of today's society which I think is very well achieved.

Author's webpage: Nonexistent

Our kind of traitor - John Le Carré

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To start commenting this masterpiece I would like to make it clear that it is exactly that: a masterpiece. Written in a very peculiar and different style, this novel is at the same time like the ones written my  Camila Lackbërg and at the same time very different. It is written in a very original and personal way, rough and brusque but at the same time sensitive. Furthermore, it is the typical book that engages the reader a lot and mantains him interested with its mystery of maximum level, leaving him curious by letting out only the most basic and necessary information little by little, and revealing only the mysteries while the plot advances with impeccable care and timing. This way the reader wants to know what will happen, but not too impatiently because it doesn't happen in the present but rather the author plays with the time and space of the story. This, mixed with the surprising realism of the novel, makes it slow but interesting.

Another curious part about this book and how it is written are its characters. In all the book there are only two characters:

• The dominant one, who talks more and curses a lot, talking in sentences that are short and to the point, skipping words and announcing all the time their minds.
•  The one that follows him, answering that he/she agrees and moreover narrates the story in that moment, which is quite unnusual as in most of the other books the narrator dominates the story.

This book may contain many names and circumstances, but in the book there are only two different personalities and two types of person with no variation; although one only person may sometimes be "the dominant one" and sometimes be "the one that follows him".

This is, anyway a very good book for very patient readers which is very well finished off.

                         Author's official webpage: http://www.johnlecarre.com/

                        

Bradley Nickell and Neal James

These are two newly discovered short-story writers which I think would proove very interesting to try out. They write mystery and crime stories, and will surely soon get to the top. I haven't tried them out yet, but in my opinion they will be worthwile and will surely make an interesting change, which my guess is that Edgar Allan Poe's readers will enjoy a lot.

                   Neal James' webpage: http://www.nealjames.webs.com/
                   Bradley Nickell's webpage: http://www.repeatoffenderonline.com/

                  

Blood Ties and Blood Ransom - Sophie McKenzie

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These two books are absolutely beautiful and complete, if not a bit naîve. They are described for the reader to feel, while he/she reads, the the thoughts that are written as their own. Each detail of what is in the characters' head is written in these books and, as they are written from the point of view of two different people, the reader is capable of feeling comfortable in the relationships and understanding each thought as if their own head had created it. They are books with a very quick pace, mostly the second one, and that are very difficult to stop reading once they've been started. I'd recommend them to everyone but mostly to young girls; especially to people that have liked authors like N.M. Browne or Anne Cassidy; but I must say that this series is more intense than the books written by those authors.

 

                     Author's official webpage: http://www.sophiemckenziebooks.com/

                    

The League - Sherrilyn Kenyon

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This series is made up by many books (I think that four, for now) that tell different stories with different main characters, but that happen in the same world and always share characters  (the main character of one of the books may be the best friend of the main character of another of the books, for example). For now, I've read the three first books: Born of Night, Born of Fire and Born of Ice; and soon I'll be able to read the fourth: Born of Shadows.

The three novels I've already read are very original and are fantastically written. They happen in the future, so they are fantasy novels; but the world in which they're told is extremely well described and very realistic, and the way in which the world the characters live in have influenced their personalities introduces the reader deeper into the stories.

These books are bursting of action and a lot of romance. They are very original and very well written, with a very quick pace that makes you read them very quickly and makes them feel extremely short. I must say that my favourite of the three books I've read is Born of Fire- the second. It is, from my point of view, the most original, exciting, touching and better written of the three. The characters in this book possess very singular personalities, they are very imaginative and are described in a way in which the reader understands to perfection all of their feelings and thoughts; starting at the end of the book to comprehend the reason of their actions even without the author having to explain them. Meanwhile, the characters of Born of Night and Born of Ice have much less singular personalities. To me, they all seemed very similar to each other, and I think that even though the author tries to change their personalities and way of being, she's not very successful and only manages to change their hair colour. The first book I read of the series was the second one, and maybe that's why it was my favourite; because after reading one of those books the rest are extremely alike and predictable. In the first and the third I empathized much less with the characters- specially in the first; and added to that there are, from my point of view, too many characters and names that the reader is expected to remember.

In conclusion, the second book was for me the most exciting of the three and the one which has the best plot. My only complaint is that, mostly in the third book the author, although she writes wonderfully apart from being very imaginative and explaining to perfection the mechanisms and workings of the world she is describing; doesn't introduce the reader well in the story at the beginning. She tries to communicate naturally and through the characters the events that have taken them to their present circumstances too quickly, and sometimes it turns out very unnatural.

But readers, don't be confused because this series is one of the best I've read, it is as well writtten as it is planned and it grabs the reader as very, AND I REPEAT VERY, few books can. It is written for adults and I think that girls will like it best; and I'd recommend it because it truly is beautiful.

                        Author's official webpage: http://www.sherrilynkenyon.com/

                       

City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare

Criticism

This book is the fourth of the Mortal Instruments series. It is much more minimallist that the previous ones and the ending is spectacular although it leaves it clear that this book isn't the last one of the saga. It contains a bit of everything and it grabs you all the way through, from the start to the end, and from my point of view it is even better that the previous books of the collection. It has a lot of mystery, action, emotion and feeling, and it is written in a way that mixes in the reader a wide feeling of curiosity with an incredible sense of caring and emotion. It makes the reader feel the events as if they were one of the main characters.

Jace and Clary deffinately completely attract and steal the reader's heart and attention; but the book isn't boring or insipid in any moment. If you've read the previous books you'll find out that this one is much better, and if you like it I recommend you reading Shadow Web by N.M. Browne. Both books are written, mostly, for relatively young girls and I think that City of Fallen Angels is worth reading (it's one of the best books of its style that I've read) and I hope you like it because I've loved it.

Author's official webpage: http://cassandraclare.com/cms/home

The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss

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This book, the second of the triology of "The Kingkiller" is a book as good as the first one (The Name of the Wind) and it lets you wanting to read the third and last book as soon as possible. It is written in the same genre as the previous one and, although the end may be a bit dissapointing, it is a book that has to be read if