Mark Sway has only eleven years, but he acts like he's older. He witnesses the suicide of a mafia lawyer with his little brother. Before suiciding, the lawyer confesses to Mark the place where a senator's corpse is buried. The senator was killed by the lawyer's client. … [Read more...]
John Ajvide Lindqvist – Handling the Undead.
In Stockholm all the dead have, inexplicably, resurrected. After an intense heat wave, which made all electronic devices go off, the dead began to look for their families. The living don't know if they should have fear or be happy. The resurrected behave … [Read more...]
John Ajvide Lindqvist – Let Me In.
Oskar suffers of bullying in his school. To vent, he goes out of his house at night, with a knife, and stabs the air imagining his enemies there. One night, he meets Eli, a strange girl who has recently moved in with a man who's, supposedly, her father. Eli isn't … [Read more...]
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter.
They're seven books. Each one of them begin with Harry Potter and... 1- The Sorcerer's Stone, 2-The Chamber of Secrets, 3-The Prisoner of Azkaban, 4-The Goblet of Fire, 5-The Order of the Phoenix, 6-The Half Blood Prince and 7-The Deathly Hallows. As the titles say, … [Read more...]
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan – The Strain, The Fall, The Night Eternal.
This trilogy is about vampires. But they're not sensual vampires! They're horrible, evil, they have a stinger as tongue, they're heartless and their only interest is to drink human blood. After the arrival of a plane, full of corpses, in the JFK International … [Read more...]
Deborah Harkness – All Souls Trilogy.
The books of this trilogy are: 1-A Discovery of Witches, 2-Shadow of Night and 3-The Book of Life. Diana Bishop is a witch, descendant of an important lineage, and a historian invited to teach in Oxford. She refuses to use her power. One day, while she was doing a … [Read more...]
Cinda Williams Chima – The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf Throne and The Crimson Crown.
This series takes place in a fantasy world where there are seven realms and a lot of places wonderfully described. The main characters are Han Alister and Raisa anna Mariana. The first one is a young man who tries to be honest, but the circumstances aren't good for him; … [Read more...]
Carlos Ruiz Zafón – The Shadow of the Wind.
This book is part of a series about "The Cemetery of Forgotten Books" that includes: The Angel's Game, The Shadow of the Wind and The Prisoner of Heaven. I haven't read The Angel's Game, but I'm going to read it and I'll post my opinion. Daniel Sempere is taken by … [Read more...]