Lily Mansfield works for the CIA as a mercenary. She decides to kill Salvatore Nervi as vengeance for assassinating the ones she considered her family. He is a powerful man, with many contacts and sometimes he gives information to the CIA so the Agency decides to … [Read more...]
Alfonso Linares – The Incredible (The Fucking Unlikely) Adventures of John Snowman Supreme Negotiator of the Galaxies.
Alluding to some movies and books the author tells us the story of how John Snowman negotiated peace between curious characters of different galaxies who had frontier troubles. Because of this he arrived late at school and he was sent to the principal’s office. Among … [Read more...]
Vanessa Tait – The Looking Glass House.
This book is about the relationship between Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the girl who inspired the author’s books. The narrator is Mary Prickett, the girl’s governess, who wanted (in this book) Dodgson’s attention. The author of this book is the … [Read more...]
Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights.
This is Heathcliff’s story and his relationship with the Earnshaw and Linton families too. How he was completely in love with Catherine Earnshaw and how he seeked revenge because he was full of hate for those who rejected him as a kid. Everything happens in Wuthering … [Read more...]
Annie Darling – The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts.
Posy inherits a bookstore which was very famous not so many years ago but at the present has few clients. This inheritance is on the condition that Posy has two years to increase the clients or the bookstore will pass to Sebastian, the presumptuos and rude nephew of the … [Read more...]
Sally Thorne – The Hating Game.
Lucy Hutton has to see Joshua Templeman, her nemesis, everyday at work. It seems that they hate each other because they're always teasing each other and they're opposites. Joshua is solitary, rutinary, disliked by the others and very tall. Lucy is little, very sociable, … [Read more...]
Erin Morgenstern – The Starless Sea.
Zachary finds a book where one event of his childhood is written exactly as he lived it. There was a painted door behind his mother's store that he wanted to open and that looked like it could be opened despite it was only a painting, but when he decided to try, the … [Read more...]
Silvia Moreno-García – Mexican Gothic.
After receiving a disturbing letter from her cousin Catalina, Noemí Taboada must travel to the countryside to a mysterious mansion called High Place where Catalina is staying with her husband and his family. This mansion is the family home. There, Noemí must help her … [Read more...]