Red Queen: The Award-Winning Bestselling Thriller That Has Taken the World By Storm (Antonia Scott Book 1)

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Intenso, la cosa es un no parar. Ya os digo que pillas la novela y hale, a meter horas y a ver si te libras de familia, hijos, amigos o lo que sea para poder seguir leyendo. Mucho diálogo entre personajes que agiliza la lectura (a mí me gusta eso, pero no a todo el mundo) The captain strokes his face, rubbing hard as if he wants to erase the look of disbelief on it. It doesn’t work. He’s approached by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct criminal investigations of a highly sensitive nature. All he has to do is succeed where many others have failed: convince a recalcitrant Antonia to come out of her self-imposed retirement, protecting her and helping her investigate a new, terrifying case.

When Jon reaches the top floor, he sees the loft door in front of him. Green. Really ancient. The worse for wear. Antonia Scott―the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother―has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. And let's not start with the characters descriptions and personality: poor, with the personality of a three-year-old, they get mad for no reason and their arcs are stupid; going from happy to enemies, to whatever without any reason but to further the plot. And we have to believe that Antonia is a genius, with a super-high IQ? With that behavior, personality and decision-making? Ha! And then you have the poor writing style, pedantic, repetitive and with a five-year-old vocabulary. With Gómez-Jurado having to tell you when characters are using sarcasm because, if not, we wouldn't understand that the characters are using it. And some drops of '10-foreign-words-that-can't-be-translated' thrown into the mix just because. Pero todo esto tiene un precio y el de Antonia lo paga cada día, cada hora, cada segundo. Ambos lo hacen, por sus cagadas o formas de ser. Por sus acciones. Pues por encima de todo son humanos, buenos, especiales y únicos como Antonia, y Jon también, pero humanos.Desde el principio hasta su conclusión estamos ante una historia ágil que nos lleva a hacernos muchas preguntas de las que necesitamos con impaciencia las respuestas.

The captain stands up, breathing heavily, and his righteous indignation propels him out of the room. As if he himself never tampered with evidence, stretched the penal code, or laid one trap here, another there. Allegedly. But he’d never been stupid enough to get caught. Gran narración y prosa, es una máquina, escribe tan sencillo pero a la vez tan ágil que te comes las paginas. Una lectura fluida y agradable, el mensaje y la trama en general se adaptan excelentemente a unos personajes únicos y muy bien desarrollados, juegan un papel clave en hacer que el lector sonría y también forjar una empatía en cada página como en cada nuevo problema creando la debida tensión. That is why she really, really doesn’t like it when, three floors below, strange footsteps interrupt her ritual.Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao—disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges—is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct criminal investigations of a highly sensitive nature. All he has to do is succeed where many others have failed: Convince a recalcitrant Antonia to come out of her self-imposed retirement, protecting her and helping her investigate a new, terrifying case.

Red Queen is one of the most extravagantly entertaining novels I’ve ever read. Sprinting from spectacular surprise to even-more-spectacular surprise; whirling from one crisply textured character to the next…it's an electrifying serial-killer thriller, fiendishly clever puzzle mystery, and sensitive portrait of a fascinating young woman. Red Queen tops even The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as a thinking reader’s thriller, and Antonia Scott is like a more sympathetic Lisbeth Salander. I loved every word." —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window With an IQ of 242, Antonia Scott is officially the smartest person on Earth. Her intelligence made her the “Red Queen” of a secret and experimental police project, but what seemed like a gift became a curse, and she ended up losing everything. When the son of a powerful tycoon is found gruesomely murdered and the daughter of Spain’s wealthiest man is kidnapped, the Red Queen organization is set in motion. Mentor, Antonia’s former boss, turns to Jon Gutierrez, a hot-tempered Basque cop on the verge of being expelled from the force, to reactivate Antonia. The twisted cat-and-mouse game in which Jon and Antonia become entangled in during the investigation helps them discover that they admire and complement each other almost as much as they irritate each other. Reina Roja is a haunting thriller set in Madrid, a city that plays a central role to the story, that combines the urgency and action of the investigation with the juicy and witty chemistry between its two main characters.Jon is still suspended without pay, but the charges against him have been dropped for the moment. And the video showing him planting the junk in the pimp’s car has disappeared as if by magic from the TV and newspapers. Pero hace un tiempo que Antonia no sale de su ático de Lavapiés. Las cosas que ha perdido le importan mucho más que las que esperan ahí fuera.

The foyer leads to a corridor that’s equally bare. No paintings or shelves. Two doors to one side, one to the other, and another at the far end. All of them wide open. A ver, no podemos leer todo lo que llega a la librería, es imposible, pero hay algunos libros que te van llamando poco a poco y que no puedes evitar caer en la tentación. Y este ha sido uno de ellos. There were also some good twists. Being a reader of Thomas Harris and Jeffrey Deaver myself, I anticipated a couple of them. Red Queen is my favorite kind of thriller, a race against time with a uniquely fascinating protagonist who's almost as big a mystery as the villain. Antonia Scott is one of the most memorable characters I've met in thriller fiction, and I can't wait to see what she does next." —Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of House on FireMy only complaint (and it’s really not a complaint) is that the other two books aren’t yet published in English! I want to read them right away! I can’t wait for them to be available.