Monday, March 7, 2011

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"The prodigy Gerard Guix

prodigy, Gerard Guix, ed. Polar Star, 2011

One of the biggest bets of the Polar Star editorial for this Sant Jordi. A tale of intrigue, horror, action, adventure, romance and werewolves. Written with gusto, with nerve, with trade, but with missing pages dramatically. And is that while Gerard Guix writes with gusto, do not get me the story credible. Axel

just moved to Barcelona. Her parents are newly divorced, has no friends, suffered some harassment at school and her body is changing. Too much hair, too large and tusk growing fondness for raw meat. An acquaintance suggests that becoming a werewolf. His mysterious uncle Odin seems to have answers. It gruesome murders start happening in the streets of Barcelona. And in the air breathe the air of war. Axel will have to decide.

I said. For me this novel quietly hundred pages missing. It is odd to say this, I know. Usually always ask for less. I hate the straw in a novel and I always look that the writer has set the text to what he calls the story, not what they ask outside elements. But in this case I'm missing things. And this absence causes the novel to mind something that's the worst that can happen to a great story cut: I do not credible.

Axel accept the fantasy element too soon. The protagonist is a boy of fourteen years who suddenly start to happen a number of physical changes too important to take them to the strength presented in the novel. There is little doubt, some fear. Suddenly it is normal that the tusks grow, eating raw meat, to appear Gothic and release a chasing vampires and come face to face with a werewolf. I need a point of realism and psychological development of characters. Axel especially not block me ... too childish at first and suddenly it's someone else. It is the opposite of what was happening in the great invocation , the appearance of the fantastic in the life of the protagonist is told realistically and with the reactions that a normal teenager would. I think it is too hasty. The same thing happens to me with the rest of the cast (perhaps with the exception of Nadia). Figures are more or less recognizable, but they lack weight. Yes, the word is rushed. As if too eager to get down in the fighting and action and would have left out the characters care. It is juvenile fantasy novel and, yes, but if something Suzanne Collins has taught us is that the moral and psychological complexity of the characters can and should be required. And this small oversight in shaping the characters wonder someone as knowledgeable in the trade as Guix ... Why I think more editorial pressure (action, action, action) than anything else? Saving

this obstacle we have a very entertaining novel of action, terror and mystery. Gerard Guix shows a taste and a great job to create the environment terror that the novel demands. The descent into the subway is a good example. Know how to count and play with the darkness and create a good atmosphere of suspense. The action scenes are fast, agile and well explained. And it saves the novel gory details if required. Because we have a violent history, hard, dirty and full of blood. One of the highlights of the novel is an example of this, a scene in a Chinese restaurant is a small tour through the different levels of terror, both physical and psychological.

plays well with the city as a character (although I miss more streets, more names of stations, more specific location) and converts the subway tunnels another character (with other locations that'll shut up). And thank you very much Gerard Guix has not fallen into the trap so common to show a picture postcard city. Get the literary Barcelona real. With its beauty and ugliness. Grace's life, but the smell of urine from other streets.

and confirms that teddy bears are very bad feeling.


prodigy presents a world interesting and promising, a final powerful atmosphere and ambiance and very collected. Too bad the characters are missing a firing point I expect to see in its continuation. I just hope that Gerard Guix take your time and mime to his creatures. The story is worth it.

And by the way, I have chosen the side. The view from Montjuic are beautiful.

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