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New books – June 2015

04 Thursday Jun 2015

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Ashley Farley, Bee Ridgway, Celeste Ng, Gillian Flynn, Jodi Picoult, S.J. Watson, Sadie Jones, Sarah Hall, Tess Thompson

It’s time to show you my new books!

There has been a book fair here in my hometown a couple of weeks ago, so I had the perfect excuse to buy here and there and, besides, I have received a few books from publishers and from a giveaway I won.

Here you go:

new books 1The outcast and The river of no return were the books I purchased in the Book Fair.

Back in April I participated in Dewey’s 24 hours readathon and, as always, since I’m kind of an addict to the mini-challenges, I participated in many of them and I won the one hosted by Darren. The prize was £15 to spend in The Book Depository, and I choose Everything I never told you, Leaving time and Sharp objects. I still can’t believe how cheap books are in that web!

And finally, I received Second life (which I have already finished) and The wolf border from Harper. I’ll review them soon, because they are for sale this month.

new books 3

I also have a couple of new ebooks:

Her sister’s shoes (Ashley Farley): I’m participaing in a book tour of this book, I think it’s my kind of read.

Duet for three hands (Tess Thompson): I was browsing on Amazon Spain but this book wasn’t available in my country so I contacted the author and she kindly sent me a copy! You know she is one of my favourite romance authors, and I really wanted to read this one – I have already started it!

new books 2So that was it!

You see I have plenty of books to enjoy after I finish my exams next week 😀

Gone girl, by Gillian Flynn

03 Friday May 2013

Posted by Isi in Books, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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gone girl copia

When I started reading blogs in English I saw millions of reviews of Gone Girl, and I knew I had to read it sooner or later. And some weeks ago I received an email from a Spanish publishing house telling that the book will be launched in Spain very soon and asking if I wanted a copy. And I did want a copy!

Now I understand why the reviews I have read don’t talk very much about the plot. All the reader needs to know before reading it is that a girl called Amy has disappeared the day of Nick and Amy’s fifth anniversary and that Nick himself doesn’t look very worried about it. The sitting room is a mess so there seems to have been a fight, the door is open, nobody has seen anything and Nick was in his bar at that moment, or so he says, because he really doesn’t have a good alibi and he lies to the police during the investigation.

We have chapters written from Nick’s point of view and parts of Amy’s diary that tell us how they meet each other the first time and how the relationship has been going through the years: the ups and downs, their best moments, etc. But there weren’t a lot of good moments in the last months so Amy was trying to solve things by preparing a great surprise for their anniversary: a treasure hunt that Nick tries to solve during the investigation and which is making him realize how much Amy loved him.

my copy of the book and my aunt playing Amy for the photo ;)

my copy of the book and my aunt playing Amy for the photo, in my village 😉

I can’t say more because the story has a lot of turns and the reader has to discover what happens by him or herself. There was a part in which I discovered I have a dark, psychotic side and even when I knew “that” thing was wrong, I couldn’t help loving the situation. And at this point I’m sure that every reader will have a different reaction about the book, but I’m sure all of them will find the story very gripping and will have a great time reading it.

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