Fernando Trujillo Sanz
Autor von Tedd and Todd's Secret (The Big Ben Mystery)
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La Biblia de los Caídos: Tomo 1 del Testamento del Gris [The Bible of the Fallen: Part 1 of the Testament of the Grey] (2012) 5 Exemplare
Black Rock Prison, vol. 1 4 Exemplare
La Biblia de los Caídos: Tomo 1 del Testamento de Sombra [The Bible of the Fallen: Part 1 of the Testament of the… (2012) 3 Exemplare
Agua roja (Spanish Edition) 1 Exemplar
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Brief, solely written with dialogue without narration or mentioning of the names of the 4 characters that appear but it's a chilling tale. While the book can be read in merely 15 minutes it's more than sufficient time to become dragged into the viewpoint of a man that is accused in the murder of a woman and his brief conversations with a greedy lawyer that only wants the case for the free publicity.
The man urges the lawyer not to accept the case.
He probably have followed suit with the accused's warning.
Highly recommended!… (mehr)
The man urges the lawyer not to accept the case.
He probably have followed suit with the accused's warning.
Highly recommended!… (mehr)
In a rough nutshell, this book is definitely a very fun paranormal read. And I usually don't read urban or paranormal fantasy all too often because I prefer epic fantasy a whole lot more.
The plot?
Figure an alternate reality where the Bible was divided into two parts: the book we know filled with abstract mythology divided into various stories and a second, magic imbued book that can cause havoc to the world if anyone with nefarious purposes gets their hands on it. Eons ago, Satan was an angel and he stole the Bible of the Fallen which is what this magically powerful book was officially named and during his expulsion pages split apart and fell into the human realm. And now there are several factions that wish to recover the pages for obvious purposes.
The book then focuses on Sara, a fledgling fortune teller who can determine huge amounts of knowledge by simply touching the belongings of a person who willing gives her the object. She makes a fledgling living in this manner until a strange visitor appears into her tent and after scaring the client away due to his sinister appearance wearing a black cloak that hides most of his body, he pays her 1000 Euros to have her read his fortune, no strings attached. Sara believes the man is either a creep or downright crazy, but seeing he doesn't look like a criminal despite his odd appearance, she reads his hand and shrieks because she doesn't see anything, not even the man's name. He confesses to feel impressed she was both capable of failing at reading his fortune and by being honest to him... He presents to her as the "Grey" which is a nickname everyone gave to him, the man with no soul.
Most of the book focuses on Sara's POV, where despite earning pittances as a common carnival fortune teller, she does have some minimal knowledge of the supernatural world. She feels both a sense of revulsion towards the Grey because he sort of has a bad rep because he apparently assists demons and rages war against angels. The man however never seems to get angry and kind of expected her behavior. And yet he gives her a job offer that will change her life forever. All she had to do was show up at an address in Madrid tomorrow at sundown for a test and if she didn't feel comfortable or happy, she was free to quit at any time.
The job?
Sara arrives to the house of a multi-millionaire businessman named Mario Tancredo, a man with few scruples who is willing to crush his own father's business simply out of spite. His daughter Silvia has been possessed by a demon that the previous exorcists he hired have been unable to save, and running out of options he hires the Grey for a high price. Sara's mission is to rummage through Mario's house, evade his psycho trophy wife Elena and perhaps not get killed in the process by a demon ravaged 8 year old girl and locate clues within Mario's belongings that could allude to which demon got Silvia possessed and for what purpose.
I think the best parts of the book are the world building that allude to a great deal of conflict between the varying sides both evil and good (albeit this book doesn't paint angels in a particularly good light) where everyone wants the pages of the Bible of the Fallen for their own purposes, which also includes the Grey. He is a bit of a morally gray character, not particularly evil and he does his business transactions within the legal scope of the code of angels, but he still gets into a huge heap of trouble along the way which I found to be amusing. The guy is an amnesiac that doesn't really know how or why he ended up the way he did, but he sure is cunning and resourceful.
The best character of the book is a looney guy called Plata who just shows up into the drama of the exorcism... and he doesn't even really know why in the hell he showed up in the body of a really tall guy with curly hair that causes him to stumble on the ground while he claims he wants to locate a dragon... why? Uh... nobody really knows. The guy is pretty crazy, must be because he keeps on jumping into different bodies in intervals that not even he knows when or why. Sara finds him to be charming in a weird but cute sort of way. Strange as it is, the bumbling weirdo is probably holding the key to knowing how to exorcise Silvia...
This book however is not perfect. Despite the strong chapter exploring Mario's ruthless nature and his transformation into a pathetic father worried sick about his daughter, a huge portion of the book meanders in circles surrounding Grey's two comrades: the way too extraverted boy who cannot ever lie named Diego and Grey’s uh... solemn bodyguard/not exactly bodyguard named Alex who hates Sara to the core but he still gives her tips on not being such a worthless newbie in their dangerous line of work. Okay, so Diego is cursed and suffers from electric shocks whenever he tells a lie, but the book spends around 30% of the time addressing this fact over and over again and Diego just blabbers nonstop utter nonsense. It can become grating after a while and slowed the story. Silvia is not just possessed by some run-of-the-mill demon, the possession is strong and they fail their first two attempts. By itself I find that to be interesting because the team needs to solve the mystery before Mario goes nuts and kicks them out of his house, but it slows the story even further. To complicate matters that further slows the story at the price of adding more world building, a sentinel woman named Miriam works for the angels and had been ordered by the sadistic angel Mikael to fetch for Grey to a conclave within 3 days to answer for a very serious crime he apparently did. I thought that part of the story was great, but the endless arguments to go with Miriam or not while she ponders whether to help or not in the exorcism simply doesn't help to speed the plot.
On a final note, while the ending is quite surprising, it does give you an M Night Shyamalan vibe that while the shocking cliffhanger is indeed unexpected, it felt like a plot hole and I don't know if part of Silvia's behavior was only to provoke the Grey to end up getting hired for some ulterior motive.
All in all, the book is promising despite the flaws and I would like to read the sequels sometime to see where the story is headed.… (mehr)
The plot?
Figure an alternate reality where the Bible was divided into two parts: the book we know filled with abstract mythology divided into various stories and a second, magic imbued book that can cause havoc to the world if anyone with nefarious purposes gets their hands on it. Eons ago, Satan was an angel and he stole the Bible of the Fallen which is what this magically powerful book was officially named and during his expulsion pages split apart and fell into the human realm. And now there are several factions that wish to recover the pages for obvious purposes.
The book then focuses on Sara, a fledgling fortune teller who can determine huge amounts of knowledge by simply touching the belongings of a person who willing gives her the object. She makes a fledgling living in this manner until a strange visitor appears into her tent and after scaring the client away due to his sinister appearance wearing a black cloak that hides most of his body, he pays her 1000 Euros to have her read his fortune, no strings attached. Sara believes the man is either a creep or downright crazy, but seeing he doesn't look like a criminal despite his odd appearance, she reads his hand and shrieks because she doesn't see anything, not even the man's name. He confesses to feel impressed she was both capable of failing at reading his fortune and by being honest to him... He presents to her as the "Grey" which is a nickname everyone gave to him, the man with no soul.
Most of the book focuses on Sara's POV, where despite earning pittances as a common carnival fortune teller, she does have some minimal knowledge of the supernatural world. She feels both a sense of revulsion towards the Grey because he sort of has a bad rep because he apparently assists demons and rages war against angels. The man however never seems to get angry and kind of expected her behavior. And yet he gives her a job offer that will change her life forever. All she had to do was show up at an address in Madrid tomorrow at sundown for a test and if she didn't feel comfortable or happy, she was free to quit at any time.
The job?
Sara arrives to the house of a multi-millionaire businessman named Mario Tancredo, a man with few scruples who is willing to crush his own father's business simply out of spite. His daughter Silvia has been possessed by a demon that the previous exorcists he hired have been unable to save, and running out of options he hires the Grey for a high price. Sara's mission is to rummage through Mario's house, evade his psycho trophy wife Elena and perhaps not get killed in the process by a demon ravaged 8 year old girl and locate clues within Mario's belongings that could allude to which demon got Silvia possessed and for what purpose.
I think the best parts of the book are the world building that allude to a great deal of conflict between the varying sides both evil and good (albeit this book doesn't paint angels in a particularly good light) where everyone wants the pages of the Bible of the Fallen for their own purposes, which also includes the Grey. He is a bit of a morally gray character, not particularly evil and he does his business transactions within the legal scope of the code of angels, but he still gets into a huge heap of trouble along the way which I found to be amusing. The guy is an amnesiac that doesn't really know how or why he ended up the way he did, but he sure is cunning and resourceful.
The best character of the book is a looney guy called Plata who just shows up into the drama of the exorcism... and he doesn't even really know why in the hell he showed up in the body of a really tall guy with curly hair that causes him to stumble on the ground while he claims he wants to locate a dragon... why? Uh... nobody really knows. The guy is pretty crazy, must be because he keeps on jumping into different bodies in intervals that not even he knows when or why. Sara finds him to be charming in a weird but cute sort of way. Strange as it is, the bumbling weirdo is probably holding the key to knowing how to exorcise Silvia...
This book however is not perfect. Despite the strong chapter exploring Mario's ruthless nature and his transformation into a pathetic father worried sick about his daughter, a huge portion of the book meanders in circles surrounding Grey's two comrades: the way too extraverted boy who cannot ever lie named Diego and Grey’s uh... solemn bodyguard/not exactly bodyguard named Alex who hates Sara to the core but he still gives her tips on not being such a worthless newbie in their dangerous line of work. Okay, so Diego is cursed and suffers from electric shocks whenever he tells a lie, but the book spends around 30% of the time addressing this fact over and over again and Diego just blabbers nonstop utter nonsense. It can become grating after a while and slowed the story. Silvia is not just possessed by some run-of-the-mill demon, the possession is strong and they fail their first two attempts. By itself I find that to be interesting because the team needs to solve the mystery before Mario goes nuts and kicks them out of his house, but it slows the story even further. To complicate matters that further slows the story at the price of adding more world building, a sentinel woman named Miriam works for the angels and had been ordered by the sadistic angel Mikael to fetch for Grey to a conclave within 3 days to answer for a very serious crime he apparently did. I thought that part of the story was great, but the endless arguments to go with Miriam or not while she ponders whether to help or not in the exorcism simply doesn't help to speed the plot.
On a final note, while the ending is quite surprising, it does give you an M Night Shyamalan vibe that while the shocking cliffhanger is indeed unexpected, it felt like a plot hole and I don't know if part of Silvia's behavior was only to provoke the Grey to end up getting hired for some ulterior motive.
All in all, the book is promising despite the flaws and I would like to read the sequels sometime to see where the story is headed.… (mehr)
Cuatro jugadores han sido convocados a una partida de póker nada habitual. Cuatro completos desconocidos se enfrentarán y jugarán sus bazas par ganar lo único que les une y que no pueden compartir. Ellos han aceptado participar para tener una oportunidad, tan decisiva como peligrosa, en la que lo único importante es vencer. Son tres hombres y una mujer muy diferentes, cada uno con su propia estrategia, vigilados por una anfitriona qe es mucho más de lo que parece. Que empiece el juego.
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Dudo mucho leer el resto de entregas, aunque debo reconocer que el libro atrapa lo suficiente como para llegar al final para ver qué pasa.… (mehr)