Three novels reviewed from #Netgalley.

 ¡Hola corazones! Como siempre, esta es una colaboración (triple) con #Netgalley y va a estar en inglés. Las novelas llevan las dos primeras tres y la última cuatro estrellas. Fueron lecturas de Octubre y recién me estoy poniendo al día con las colaboraciones de esta página del bien. (Leo mucho en inglés y me encanta la opción de "Read Now" que tiene que te presta el libro de inmediato, pero cada préstamo es una responsabilidad con la editorial para reseñar la novela y ser honestos.)

Así que sin mas dilación las tres reseñas:

Hi there! This time I come with three novels very different that I was provided from #Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

 

In Cold Blood by Jane Bettany

I was specting that DI Isabel Blood at her 56 years old would be some sort of these new kind od UFC (unlikeable female character) but she is not. And She is amazing.

At the very beginning the twins Amy and Paul Whitworth are renovating an old property from the sixties when they found human remains (a skeleton) buried in the backyard. At first they decide not to do anything but finally, the called the police. The drama begins whit the fact that the detective live in her teens in that house and her father went missing. Could the body in the garden be him?

Spoilers ahead….

It is not him. So she can be involved in the investigation.

End of sopilers.

After that the thriller is truly gripping. The pace is fast and is like a cool procedural british show. Slowly I’m getting used to the DI, DS titles instead of detective, or police man so used by the americans in their thrillers.

It has a lot of plot twists and I can say I was very addictive. Once you start it you kept going until find out who? Where? When? How? It happen. And There is paper work after the big break trhu!

I really recommend it for fans of the thrillers and I hope there will be more adventures from DI Isabelle Blood.

 

The haunting of Beatrix Greene by Serial Box Publishing

 

I have my serious doubts after I picked it. I wanted a Halloween reading but I wasn’t prepare to find out it was an edit of a serial novel published online.

I have mixed feelings because, for instance, every serial ends with a big cliffhanger to kept you going. (Which is good)

It was like reading some old penny dreadful of gothic terror. The first part was narrated by Rachel Hawkins (Which is why I picked it) I loved her trilogy, Hex hall at the end and wanted to see how se was writing for older audiences.

The first serial is very introductive but is so freaking good! It has these vibes from The show Penny Dreadful and the movie The Crimson Peak that it was a really satisfactory reading for Halloween.

The victorian medium, in a creepy house full of ghost really pay out but it was not so out of the ordinary. I guess I can feel the differences between the episodes written by every author. Thou they try to keep it very well edited, is like a show when sometimes, the first few chapters are good and then in the middle it drag some parts…like a dead weight (pun intended).

For me is three stars. (I would say 3.5 Victorian gothic stars but goodreads is all or nothing.)

Love the red dress cover better than the one with the frame on it.

The poppy and the rose by Ashlee Cowles

 

I wanted to choose some young adult novel to read in October and this one strikes me at first sight. The synopsis was very interesting promising both mystery and historical fiction. Topics that aren’t your usual cup of tea.

The story is told by two points o f view: Ava Knight in 1912 and Taylor in 2010.

I loved Taylor point of view, the mystery about her father and the lovely and colorful characters that she met in Oxford. I’m such a big fan of OXFORD since I’ve read  A discovery of witches pretty much I wanted to go there to study anything and this teen gets a summer Journalism program pretty much for free… you gotta love that books exists!

It was well paced and the two POV makes everything more exciting to read, letting the mistery unfold in the very last part of the novel.

Like the author saids in her review: I love Titanic and historical facts, I love intrigue, I love romance and I love mystery in the good old England that looks like Downtown Abbey so I’m going to rise my 3.5 Oxford stars up to four in goodreads, because this book deserves it.

Never came home by Gretta Mulrooney. #Netgalley #nevercamehome

 ¡Hola corazones! ya se que saben que me engolosiné con #Netgalley. En total pedí ocho novelas y cinco son thrillers o terror para conmemorar el mes oscuro. Es un poco complicado leer con un tiempo límite pero hasta ahora lo vengo manejando bien (en el medio tengo las lecturas de las cosas que me gustan y hasta contraté Kindle Ulimited porque estoy chapa, o leyendo a las chapas.). La siguiente, es una novela de la autora británica Gretta Mulrooney que es como especialista en thrillers y tiene esta detective (Siv Drummond) de la que sacó su segunda novela, que es la que me toca reseñar en inglés como siempre.

Ahora, la reseña en inglés:

I want to thanks #Netgalley and the publisher for the copy in exchange for an honest review.

Can a woman vanish into thin air? It’s 2013 and we witnesses the last time Adam, a nine year old kid, watches her mother, Lyn Dimas, go to the groceries and never came back.

Six years later, a body is found in a demolition site, in which they’re going to build new apartments. Detective Siv Drummond and her team get themselves a cold case who turned up to be murder.  The body of Lyn Dimas is found out tied up in a back of an old fridge in an abandoned place and re opens the investigation of the disappearance of Mrs. Dimas.

This novel goes through the entire investigation of the case and in times, reveals the problems of Siv and her team. Like Siv dealing with the dead of her husband or her conflictive relationship with her mother, Mutsi.

It was a slow reading for me, too much British slang got me in some trouble, but there’s a glossary of terms in the end of the book that you can check out.

Is a dark slow pace mystery that unfolds the complicated life of the Dimas.  All the time I feel so sorry about Adam and him carrying the fault of something he couldn’t avoid.

It was grim but yet interesting, sometimes there was just to many interrogations going on. Is like long version of one of those dramatic detective’s TV show like Vera. The pace was a little bit to slow for me, I’m get used to to fast thrillers but it was a nice reading.

For me is a three stars reading (I was pondering four since is three and a half actually). The motive and the discovery at the end it was OK but it was my first suspect since the beginning even if there is many others who had stronger motive to kill Lyn.

Ideal for fans of Wallander and such who wants a female and not so likeable (she is a bit too moody and gloom because of the grief and her job basically) older police detective.

 

¿Conocían a la autora? ¿Leen trhillers? Esta es muy estilo Wallander asi que se las recomiendo a todos aquellos que les gustan los procedurales ingleses.

Quiero cerrar escribiendo que por estos lares es el DIA DE LA MADRE y DE LA FAMILIA. Quiero saludar a mi madre y a mi familia que esta siempre al pie del cañón para apoyarme en las diferentes decisiones y etapas de mi vida. En especial a mi tía, ahora que mi abuela nos mira del cielo, porque es una leona que me banca en todas.

Videostore| Hailey Dean Mysteries.

Hola, no se si del otro lado hay fans de Kellie Martin. ¿Quizás de sus años en ER Emergencias?  Yo me hice fan de la actriz cuando la vi en una serie de películas de misterio de Hallmark Channel llamadas Mystery Woman.  Soy mega fan de los misterios televisivos, de hecho soy mega fan de los misterios en cualquier género: película, serie, lo que venga...
Actualmente la actriz esta protagonizando una nueva serie de películas de misterio en donde interpreta a Hailey Dean, una ex fiscal de distrito que actualmente trabaja como consejera y terapeuta. Las películas se basan en los personajes de las tres novelas de una ex fiscal mediática norteamericana llamada Nancy Grace.

La vida de Hailey es complicada pues su marido fue asesinado en extrañas circunstancias que (supongo aparentemente) irán desarrollando a lo largo de los films.

Los tres primeros son buenos. El mejor misterio, para mí, fue el tercero en donde un asesino usa una app de citas... creo que se llama Date with murder  (Estoy muuuuy vaga para googlear y mi notebook apesta a lenta, plus se me dio por programar entradas diversas en el blog y bueno este es el resultado de mi vagancia.)

Desafortunadamente no esperen conseguir subtítulos para las películas, de hecho hasta es complicado "conseguir" las películas pero aunque saben que no apoyo la piratería bla bla bla... esto no cuenta es TV...

Hailey  Dean Mystery: Murder with love.

Y todas las demas: Link

Recuerden que si las borran, lo siento pero yo no subo nada, solo copypasteo links.

¡Saludos amantes del séptimo arte!