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El corazón me pedía ponerle 5 ESTRELLAS, pero finalmente ha ganado la cabeza y le dejo en 4, que igualmente dice que es una muy buena novela para pillarla y quedarte enganchadito a la lectura. The captain stands up, breathing heavily, and his righteous indignation propels him out of the room. As if he himself never tampered with evidence, stretched the penal code, or laid one trap here, another there. Allegedly. But he’d never been stupid enough to get caught. Intenso, la cosa es un no parar. Ya os digo que pillas la novela y hale, a meter horas y a ver si te libras de familia, hijos, amigos o lo que sea para poder seguir leyendo. Mucho diálogo entre personajes que agiliza la lectura (a mí me gusta eso, pero no a todo el mundo) Gran narración y prosa, es una máquina, escribe tan sencillo pero a la vez tan ágil que te comes las paginas. Una lectura fluida y agradable, el mensaje y la trama en general se adaptan excelentemente a unos personajes únicos y muy bien desarrollados, juegan un papel clave en hacer que el lector sonría y también forjar una empatía en cada página como en cada nuevo problema creando la debida tensión. And then you have the poor writing style, pedantic, repetitive and with a five-year-old vocabulary. With Gómez-Jurado having to tell you when characters are using sarcasm because, if not, we wouldn't understand that the characters are using it. And some drops of '10-foreign-words-that-can't-be-translated' thrown into the mix just because.
Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao, is disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges. But then he is unexpectedly offered a chance to salvage his career. Que la novela engancha está fuera de toda duda. La extensión de la obra es engañosa. Se puede leer en dos sentadas si las posaderas lo permiten. Capítulos muy cortos y directos al grano, sin grandes recovecos temporales. La trama es interesante, aunque no muy original. La mención soterrada a dos grandes corporaciones españolas, y a cómo han forjado su imperio está bien traída, aunque algo manida a estas alturas. Pero quedan desdibujadas las motivaciones del “malo” (ejem) de turno, por no decir que no están muy bien explicadas. nail-biting...tantalizing...startling...Lizbeth Salander devotees will find much to like." — Publishers Weekly We are introduced to a fascinating duo in Antonia Scott and Jon Gutierrez. If you are from outside of the States, perhaps you already know them as the book was originally published in Spanish in 2018 and has won numerous international awards. Antonia is billed as, perhaps, the smartest person on the planet (and was based loosely on a woman with a 200+ IQ). Jon is a seasoned, if not great cop. His huge frame is maybe only outsized by his heart. The two characters balance each other exceedingly well.
Fast paced, memorable characters and a cinematic story that draws you in hook, line and sinker. I can’t wait to get my hands on the next in the series." —John Marrs, author The One and Keep it in the Family Espía de Dios ("God's Spy", a novel), Roca Editorial, 2006, Spain. Translated into English, Danish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Italian, German, Serbian, Dutch and Finnish There were unexpected moments of humor in The Red Queen, which I always appreciate in a thriller. Antonia is a pretty serious person but Jon is a bit more comical and the narration, which is a multi-POV style from the perspective of five characters, also has a few ominisicent jokes.
You’re in a tight spot, Inspector Gutiérrez. You’ve been suspended and lost your salary, for starters. And you’re facing quite a few charges. Now for the good news.” Antonia Scott is special. Very special. She is not a policewoman or a lawyer. She has never wielded a weapon or carried a badge, and yet, she has solved dozens of crimes. Un thriller ritmato, scorrevole, pieno di azione, di suspence, ma anche di momenti di introspezione psicologica. Il tutto condito con la grande ironia di Juan Gómez- Jurado.I know it must be hard for you to talk to a stranger. No doubt you’ve got someone more suitable lined up.” In Bilbao, in police headquarters on Calle Gordóniz, the day before Jon has to contend with six flights of stairs in Madrid. What he has to contend with right now are the offenses of falsifying documents, tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, and professional disloyalty. Oh, and a prison sentence of between four and six years.
Antonia, la perfiladora, bien, vale, cumple. Características atractivas para la historia y que no está mal. El resto de personajes no los veo. Nombres que hacen cosas y poco más (Parra sí me ha gustado, mira tú). De todas formas si habéis leído más de Gómez-Jurado ya sabéis que los personajes no son su mayor virtud. You’ve interrupted me,” says Antonia. She turns the iPad over so that the screen is facing the scuffed parquet floor. “That’s very impolite.” Jon Gutiérrez faces the top flight of stairs at No. 7 Calle Melancolía (in the Lavapiés district of Madrid) in a really foul mood. The captain wouldn’t explain anything when Jon asked him about Mentor.
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Jon is left stewing in his own juices. They’ve taken his watch and cell phone away: standard procedure to make him lose all sense of time. The rest of his personal belongings are in an envelope. With nothing to entertain him, the hours crawl by, allowing him more than enough time to torture himself for being such a fool. Now that he’s been found guilty in the media, all that’s left is to wonder how many years he’ll have to spend in the Basauri prison. A place where a good number of friends are waiting for him, fists clenched and keen to lay their hands on the cop who put them there. Or maybe they’ll send him farther afield for his own protection, somewhere his mother won’t be able to visit him. Or take him a lunch box with her famous Sunday cococha cod cheeks. Nine years at fifty Sundays per year makes 450 Sundays without cocochas. Approximately. That seems to Jon like really harsh punishment. His mother is already elderly. She had him at twenty-seven, almost a virgin, very right and proper. Now he’s forty-three and she’s seventy. By the time Jon gets out, there’ll be no mother to make him his favorite dish. That is, if the news doesn’t kill her first. The woman in 2B will already have told her, that fork-tongued viper: just look at the fuss she made about the geraniums.
Tampoco recibe visitas. Por eso no le gusta nada, nada, cuando escucha unos pasos desconocidos subiendo las escaleras hasta el último piso. Escenas del crimen complicadas, poder, dilemas morales y personales, esfuerzos por descubrir la verdad y salvar vidas a través de crímenes desafiantes y un peligro constante. La acción es genial, adecuada, construido con frases y diálogos sin florituras pero muy ágiles y realistas, controlando bien los tiempos y las expresiones. Muy equilibrado y tejido a cada paso. Antonia y Jon menudo equipo. Forman una pareja poco probable, pero que funciona muy bien, bastante. Es digamos una relación un poco desequilibrada. Pero a su vez creíble.
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Acabada su lectura, y habiendo leído tan buenas novelas de este autor, creo que esta no está entre sus mejores. Principalmente por ese final hollywoodiense (del que por supuesto no voy a decir ni mu, como bien solicita el autor, para que no le destripen la novela). Creo que JGJ escribe ya más pensando en el futuro guión, sabiendo que la industria cinematográfica está ávida de materiales como este. Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao—disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges—is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct criminal investigations of a highly sensitive nature. All he has to do is succeed where many others have failed: Convince a recalcitrant Antonia to come out of her self-imposed retirement, protecting her and helping her investigate a new, terrifying case. This book has so many plot holes/things that make no sense that I don't know where to start. So let's make a list:
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