With the age that we have been, I am dying to spend a relaxed summer with my mind at a standstill. And if something manages to make me have a good time and appease that muffled hum that my brain is so fond of, it's a good book. One of those that hook you and don't let go even after it's finished because its characters don't seem to want to leave. If the same thing happens to you –and I know from the Clara Tribe that you are many who are fond of reading–, I will give you a compilation of books that I have read or that I have in the summer wishlist wanting to devour.
With the age that we have been, I am dying to spend a relaxed summer with my mind at a standstill. And if something manages to make me have a good time and appease that muffled hum that my brain is so fond of, it's a good book. One of those that hook you and don't let go even after it's finished because its characters don't seem to want to leave. If the same thing happens to you –and I know from the Clara Tribe that you are many who are fond of reading–, I will give you a compilation of books that I have read or that I have in the summer wishlist wanting to devour.
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€ 16.05Who are you from Megan Maxwell
Maxwell always raises the temperature with his novels, so I'll find a cool place to read it this summer … In this novel, the main character is a teacher, Martina, who for the first time in her life gets into internet chats to meet to men and the moment she thinks she is starting a promising relationship online, in real life, she begins to notice as if someone is following her …
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€ 19.47The naked life of Mónica Carrillo
The well-known journalist Mónica Carrillo has written this novel that is the 2020 Azorín Novel Prize and that delves into the mysteries of a family, that of the protagonist, Gala, who has to travel to say goodbye to her grandmother. This journey will turn into a life journey when she discovers the multiple layers that surround her family members, whom she doesn't know as well as she thought … I don't know about you, but I love family dramas (in my summer wishlist!).
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€ 19.85I will follow in your footsteps from Care Santos
Care Santos is one of my favorite authors … I really liked a previous novel, Half Life, and since then, in addition to having already read some of her previous novels, I have not missed what she publishes. That is why his new book, I will follow in your footsteps, is coming with me on vacation. Santos returns us to the Civil War and its aftermath, when the protagonist, Reina, receives a letter that reveals to her that her father's death may not have been as she believed and that there is much more behind it … Determined, she seeks to know the true.
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17.10 €Katharine McGee's American Royals
It is no secret that the CLARA web director, Laura Pérez Llorca, and I read it to each other during our quarantine and that we loved it because it is one of those books that make time go by faster. So I keep recommending it to those who have not read it. She has everything, a different world from the one we have because it is based on the fact that the United States is a monarchy and not a republic, a crown princess with love pains and many characters around her conspiring either to take her throne or her heart. .. Really, don't miss it.
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21.75 €The riddle of room 622
Another who is going to come with me from the parasol and whose page will end up wrinkled from taking it and leaving it when coming and going from the water. I fondly remember the summer I read The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair and can't wait to pick up this one and eat it whole. The novel looks good because this time the author becomes a character and is the protagonist of the novel. Dicker, after suffering a love setback, goes on a trip and stays in a hotel where years ago a crime was committed that he is "forced" to solve since it was never known who was responsible …
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18.05 €Songbird and Snake Ballad by Suzanne Collins
I confess, I don't care that The Hunger Games is classified as youth literature. Moreover, if the book is good - and these are - I have plenty of label. What's more, I've had an even better time because I've been able to share them with my 15-year-old daughter, with whom we haven't missed the films in the saga either. So both she and I are thrilled now to read the prequel, A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes . And we are even more fascinated that the protagonist is Coriolanus Snow, when he is still not President Snow but a humiliated "loser" who will find himself in the position of training the tribute of District 12 … (If you don't know what I'm talking about, start by reading the trilogy of The Hunger Games and tell me …).
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€ 17A perfect tale by Elísabet Benavent
It is the last book we have read in the Clara Tribe reading club and, as always, Elísabet Benavent, @BetaCoqueta, does not disappoint. Margot is a girlfriend on the run who chance puts David in the middle, a maturing Peter Pan … The friendship between them gets complicated and … between sex, travel, transcendental life decisions you will come to a surprising ending. Original, exciting and entertaining.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
€ 18.90Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
I really wanted to read this book because Moriarty is also the author of the novel on which the Big Little Lies series is based and one has her "unconditional loves" (and yes, if you suspect it, Alexander Skarsgård is one of them, but there we leave the subject …). So I took it with a lot of desire and … at first it took me a little to get hooked but then the novel has an in crescendo that makes you can't stop reading until the end and the characters - those nine perfect strangers, they get into you the heart-. The novel begins with the arrival of nine people to a spa to undergo "transformative therapy", each for very different reasons and … (you'll have to find out, hahaha).
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The nosy Muriel Spark
Two of the best novels I have read this year ( Calypso by David Sedaris and Everybody Loves Daisy Jones by Taylor Jenkins Reid) have been recommended to me by Raül from Blackie Books. So when she tells me that I can't miss Muriel Spark because she's a fun, transgressive and steely-penned author, I make room in the suitcase for the novel … But even if she wouldn't have recommended it, I think it would have fallen the same knowing the plot. And it all revolves around an aspiring writer, Fleur, who after World War II gets a job to rewrite the memoirs of a group of eccentric millionaires. Or so he believes at first, because then everything makes him think that it is a cover, a fraud …
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€ 18.90Lucinda Riley's Sun Sister
This novel is the sixth of the septology The Seven Sisters of Riley, but you can read it without having any idea of the previous novels, which is what I am going to do because I was completely unaware of this series, but the synopsis of this novel has called me attention. The protagonist of the novel is Electra, a model who lives in New York hooked on alcohol and drugs after the death of her millionaire father. Electra's life takes a turn when she receives a letter from a grandmother who didn't even know existed, a grandmother who tells her about a past in Kenya and takes her into the secrets of her family …
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€ 17.95The Crest Sisters by Sandrine Destombes
Destombes must be followed closely because it is consolidating itself as one of the great names in French crime fiction. So I am looking forward to reading this new novel that promises to keep me on my toes constantly … Crest police are faced with a hit-and-run case that will be complicated by finding a young girl in the wrecked car. kidnapped and from here on, the corpses will not stop coming out, all related to a shelter for women who suffer gender violence …
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€ 18.05Dangerous blonde by Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is one of those authors who are guaranteed to have a good time, a very black time, like his stories. And I love it …. That's why it's another of the books I'm going to read this summer. It could be any other title that I have not read, but it will be Dangerous Blonde , because it is the last one that RBA has published. The story stars Detective Easy Rawlins, who has just suffered a heartbreak but who does not have time to lick his wounds because he must avoid a bloodbath in Los Angeles, when two of the most dangerous men in the city disappear. And one of them is a friend of hers and leaves his stepdaughter in charge …
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19.85 €Postcards from the east of Reyes Monforte
I confess that I have not read A burqa for love and I know that it is something that I have to remedy soon because they speak wonders of it but … the book that I have at the top of the pile of earrings is this, Postcards from the east . I really want it because it is a novel based on real events and the protagonist is a young Jewish woman, Ella, who in 1943 arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her perfect handwriting is destined for offices and there she finds postcards of the prisoners and decides to write their stories so that no one will forget them … (Note: I'm sure it will make me cry, but that sometimes relieves so much …).
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€ 21.75And Julia challenged the gods of Santiago Posteguillo
I was fascinated by the character of Julia Domna in the first part of this bilogy, but … almost 800 pages have made me save the reading of And Julia Challenged the Gods for the holidays. But I really want to know what happens once Julia gets her husband Seventh Severus to become emperor. Because if the fight for the throne is hard, staying can be even more dangerous, especially when one of those who conspire against you is your own son. But it is that, in addition, Julia has to fight against an even more fearsome enemy, cancer … But Julia is strong and, as she herself says: "I never lose." Is it true that she manages to outwit the gods?
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€ 17.10Sons of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
This novel is the second part of Children of Blood and Bone, a number 1 in The New York Times sales and 2019 Hugo Award for the best fantasy work. And it is another of the novels that I share with my eldest daughter. I'm not a big fan of this genre, but there are series that hook me. He did Memoirs of Idhún of Laura Gallego and does this. In this second part, magic has returned to the Orïsha, but this unleashes a struggle for power that causes Zélie and Amari to go back to full use. If you don't know what I'm talking about, start with the first book in the series and you'll see how you can't stop …
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€ 22.70Blood Rules Stephen King
In summer there are more daylight hours and that is what I need to read these three unpublished stories by Stephen King, because if it is not with the Sun up, I do not know if I can resist King's paranormal noir. I'm scared to turn the pages at times … But it's always a great pleasure to have such a bad time of my own free will, so I'm not going to complain. The first story stars the detective Holly Gibney, an old acquaintance of King's followers, but this time she goes from high school to protagonist, but I can't explain much more without revealing the plots, so, if you like King, the The only option is to click on the button and find out for yourself.
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€ 18.05The Lost King by Jeff Noon
Have I already told you how fond I am of the crime novel? I confess that she is responsible for my suitcase weighing what is not written and Noon makes it weigh his because The Lost King has 464 pages! But it seems that what I am not going to regret is to take it with me because the story is one of those that makes you want to read. Intrigue and rock and roll hand in hand, could you ask for more? Here's the story: Inspector Henry Hobbes has to solve the death of a man whose body has been manipulated to resemble the look that glam rock star Lucas Bell wore on the cover of his latest album. This wouldn't be so weird if Bell hadn't been assassinated seven years earlier and the most recent dead was a die-hard Bell fan, whom they called the Lost King …
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€ 18.90The Bookbinder by Bridget Collins
I can only say that he made me turn off the light one night at four in the morning so I could get to the end. And I don't want to reveal too much about this book. Because it creates an intrigue that grabs you, a suspense that you think will take you down a path that later has nothing to do with what you have imagined. It is a book full of magic and an exquisite sensitivity. The protagonist of this story is Emmet Farmer, a young farmer upset by an event that we do not quite understand and that has important memory gaps. Emmet arrives as an apprentice to Seredith's house and there he discovers her name in one of the mysterious books that she binds …
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18.05 €A brutal blow from Richard Lange
In summer I stock up on crime novels and this thriller is one of the ones I already have in my suitcase, waiting for the day marked in red on the agenda as the start of my vacation. I want to read it! The story promises: Rowan is a three-quarter con man who thinks he has hit the perfect hit that will finally fill his pockets. The problem is that their victims are soldiers and that is not a good idea no matter how you look at it. Rowan is going to see himself in serious trouble and not only him, but also that daughter whom he has neglected for years and who he will hate more than ever that now appears in his life …
