Author: Ramón Cerdá
SYNOPSIS
Enrique del Nogal, notary of Valencia, is kidnapped from his home, returning after a week no one has requested a ransom for him. Back unharmed, with the same clothes and with no memory of what happened during his absence, which casts doubt on the veracity of the kidnapping, even his own wife. He who has never believed in spirits suffer in their own flesh a series of appearances and complicate it even further embarrass their marital relationship and their professional work.
OPINION OF CAROLINA MARQUEZ ROJAS
The mystery and intrigue are served from the first pages of the story, first in a trilogy about a subject which offers plenty of literature and gives wings to the imagination: Spiritualism, but related to other equally intriguing and interesting topics such as cloning, this is the case, "astral projection and reincarnation. The three independent reading books are not necessary to read them in order of publication, while sharing the presence of someone of several that appear in the plot.
From a disturbing premise - the disappearance of a person, his poor memory about what happened, the fear of not remembering ", the story weaves and building on the story of all those involved in the plot, each account what is happening and what they think, so that each character is a piece of the puzzle that is taking shape with input from the facts who are living each and every one of them.
Although the novel grabs the reader's interest, the fact of having several narrators and no one, that is what we tend most authors, it is sometimes a bit lost the plot, since no you know the author's intention to change the character who tells the story of another character and another story, and that also has its own history, so that the narrative "Short", is interrupted at the end of each chapter to start another story different from above, but one thing is certain, and that maintains the tension with every last sentence of each chapter, leaving us with the desire that the author again pick up the thread that has just left.
breaks and changes of narrator raises new questions and new clues to unravel the mystery, sometimes too many questions, and if one has knowledge of cloning, the argument is taking a somewhat predictable path, but manages to surprise conclusion despite the lack of scientific data to provide a little light on the subject.
What begins as scattered pieces of a puzzle just assembled, showing the same idea with a link, one short story, though some other character that really has little or nothing to do with the outcome of the story, the mystery that is the key the "spirit" of the novel. The plot hooks
be a bit sparse but there remain some questions unanswered and characters are dispensable for the understanding of the story. But once the reader begins to read and entered into the world created by the author and the mystery that release each of the lines written, the only alternative is to finish the novel and meet its end, a surprising ending.
CAROLINA MÁRQUEZ ROJAS
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