Here's my very personal top five of books published during the past year. When I tried to list the news stick to avoiding, where possible, new editions or compilations of classic titles and appeared at the time in our country. As a matter of taste there is nothing written, I understand that each one would take away one and add another, but in any case, these are my five favorites, and as such, from here I pay this small tribute:
1. The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman of . Ed
Roca.
Synopsis: Guided by instinct, a baby escapes from the crib in the middle of the night and reached the cemetery near his home. The individual who pursues him, knife in glove, just killed his entire family and is determined to end it. But the ghosts of protecting the small cemetery just welcome him on his land. Although this time he has escaped, the sinister man Jack has not rest fulfill its mission sta ... In his new home with his new ghostly parents, the baby will be baptized with the ape lative Nobody Owens odysseys.
Rating: Gaiman returns to show off their talents and prove why he is one of the most interesting writers today with this story for all ages, full of rhythm, humor, suspense and wit.
2. The party Orf eo of Javier Márquez Sánchez . Ed
Almuzara.
Synopsis: Eng RRA, 1956. The British government is confused at the horrific events that occurred in a village in the Scottish Borders. The case is handed over to Scotland Yard agent specializing in foreign events, the inspector Andrew Carmichael, and his partner, Detective Harry Logan. At the same time, a modest film company, Hammer Films, has set back into fashion the horror genre with an innovative and gruesome adaptation of Frankenstein . For this contract the television actor Peter Cushing and charge, in order to prepare for her role, drawing on various experts to deepen the roots of human fear. Everyone agrees search Monsieur La fête du Orphée, a mysterious roll movie from the silent film that seems to be leaving a trail of destruction and tragedy.
Rating: Marquez pinch does the reader's mind with this haunting novel that pays homage to Hammer while masterfully revises old cliches of the genre. Much better than the overrated Valdemar Inheritance and its continuation.
3. Blood Swamp of Preston & Child .
Ed Plaza & Janes.
Synopsis: FBI Special Agent Aloysius XL Pendergast returns to his old family mansion in Louisiana. After wandering through the gardens neglected and suck in the corridors a humid and suffocating, stops at the armory, where he opened a cabinet to perform for the first time in twelve years, the rifle of his beloved wife Helen. Yesterday
Pendergast mourned Helen, died in a safari in Africa a lion attack red horsehair. Today
discover a tragedy that was not by chance, someone planned the murder of his wife. Pendergast
know the real Helen and her mind is tortured to find out who snatched life.
Rating: Although the adventures of Agent Pendergast go for their tenth delivery, that does not mean that Preston and Child have lowered the bar, in fact, the latter (so far) series title retrieved pulse the first, you hooked from the first page and does not let you drop it until the final climate, an open end and then cries out to uncover all the mysteries that the authors hint at in its pages. Addictive.
4. Paths purple of Angel Torres Quesada . Ed
AJEC Group.
Synopsis: Having spent his childhood in Wuff, one of the planets condemned to isolation by the cardinal - the oligarchy that rules the destinies of the scope from his impregnable enclosure of the Dome - Giselle is rescued by his father, yolda Abasi, and led to a new world where it enjoys an eventful decade of life that the area granted to its citizens.
But after the mysterious disappearance of her father, begins to suspect that it actually was part of a conspiracy against the Cardinal which was not complete; decided to investigate it to its logical conclusion, will be assisted by a spirit de la Fuente, Hesperis, a philosopher who died over a thousand years ago, and Lhote, a young fugitive been beyond the scope, but also opposed by Saldrach, one of the cardinal that govern the reins of Scope.
Rating: Indeed, Quesada is not the same who wrote the saga of the trilogy or Star Order of Hell Island years, but who had retained, and any of his later works are read and enjoy with the same intensity earlier. And this is no exception.
5. Tamara Drewe Posy Simmonds of . Ed
Entido Sins.
Synopsis: 's called "Plastic Fantastic." With its sex appeal, his rhinoplasty work in the press look cheap and heartthrob, Tamara Drewe around his hometown cause a shock in the small rural community. Tamara does not leave anyone indifferent, men and women, successful writers and academics frustrated, they are all trapped by the magnet of Tamara, unleashing dark passions and tragedies absurd.
Rating: Halfway between prose and comic, this irreverent and fun "book? was one of the most pleasant surprises of 2010, largely thanks to its main character, to which he portrays on film the beautiful Gemma Atherton.
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