A Madness So Discreet
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Sucker Punch meets Criminal Minds (Sucker minds / Criminal Punch) Original de: El Extraño Gato del Cuento A Mindy McGinnis la conocí gracias a su libro debut Not A Drop to Drink, libro que recomiendo y hablo casi todo el tiempo, aunque no leí la novela que acompaña al libro, estoy segura de que me gustará tanto o más que A Madness So Discreet. Llevo aproximadamente un mes pensando que escribir en esta reseña. La razón es simplemente porque mi cerebro no está capacitado para darte mi opinión sin soltar spoilers a lo loco o al menos salir de mi modus operandi y darte algunos detalles de la historia. LOCURA DE PORTADA Decir que al menos no te causa curiosidad la portada, sería mentir, porque al menos el vestido o la elección de colores te llamará la atención. Y, entonces, empiezas a notar las otras cosas. El inicio del libro más la gran ayuda visual de la portada me hizo sentirme en la película Sucker Punch (¿la película de Emily Browning?). Tiene esa sensación de desesperación y locura tan atractiva de la película. "WE HOLD TO OUR TRUTHS IN THE DARKNESS" A Madness So Discreet es un libro que será duro de leer al inicio, al menos para mí lo fue. No es porque sea aburrido, todo lo contrario, pero lo que hace que la historia tenga un inicio, es algo bastante cruel y lamentablemente muy real. No quiero decir exactamente que es, solo que la escritora lo tocó con delicadeza de una muy buena manera durante todo el libro, no dejando que se convirtiera en una idealización de algo tan duro o reducirlo a un romance que puede curar y hacer olvidar todo. Si bien el libro empieza con una protagonista que ha tenido que vivir una vida bastante dura, me gustó mucho como al transcurso de la historia se da cuenta de que las cosas por las que tuvo que pasar no son algo que merecía y que a pesar de todo, en su retorcida manera a veces, puede encontrar cosas buenas. Sobre todo con personajes entrañables como Elizabeth y Nell. Pero si has leído a Mindy antes, ya sabes que la señora te romperá el corazón, porque así es ella. *** A Madness So Discreet me encantó, creo que es el único o al menos uno de los primeros thrillers que leo, fue un buen inicio. Si te gusta Criminal Minds, te gustará mucho el libro. Twitter || Blog || Pinterest || Tumblr || Instagram || Facebook
This is a familiar story of detective work by a handsome doctor with a sharp mind and his good looking, vigilant female assistant. What makes me like this story are the characters. Throughout the book I wasn't sure whether one of them (or possibly both) will turn out to be a sociopath. Mindy McGinnis aimed to explore the fine line between sanity and insanity and in my opinion she achived that pretty good in her character's actions. What misleads people and skews their expectations is the asylum-setting and the fact, that most seem to keep the modern and thus progressed definitions of the mental illnesses we come across in this book in mind, when they dive into the story. Just take "madness". Back in 1890 madness was a different thing than nowadays. Of course almost all the characters seem to me, a woman raised with the sience of the 21st century, pretty much sane. Most likely, none of them would be hospitalized in a psychiatry nowadays. The insanity living in the modern days is nowhere to be found in this story. Additional to the missing horrors of human minds, the frights that one expects from an asylum are (mostly) absent as well. We get to see two examples how asalyms might have been in the worst and best case. But judging by the epilogue Mindy McGinnis wanted to focus on the true nature of those institutions back in the 19th century. The ones that were a place for a second chance of a life. But people seemed to expect flickering lights and hidden chambers, where mad doctors are experimenting on children or what ever. Pardon, no creepy effects here. Altough we get a handsome but socially awkward doctor, dissecting brains in his spare time. I actually liked Melancthon and found him to be a very convincing emotionally challenged character. The side-characters were well rounded and fit perfectly into the murder-hunt-backstory. I usually struggle with third POV but McGinnis' writing style works for me since I am already acquianted with her other works. The dectective story is not as entertaining as Sherlock Holmes, which is impossible enough and not as humouring as Jackaby but this book is not about solving a crime or shocking the reader. And it's not an educational story about mental illness. It's as mundane a story as real life can get, showing characters struggling with self-preception and their intimate horrors while crying on your friends shoulder or snapping at your partner. And the best thing: Grace Mae and Doctor Thornhollow are not drowning in some sappy romance. I do believe that love and attention are healing to a broken mind. And we get genuine acts of love and friendship throught the story, which is beautiful. What we don't get is the crappy tropes romance books bury their readers in. There are no excessive descriptions of ones appearance, how beautiful their lashes are and how sensually they cross their ankles blah blah...snore... If you're in for a generic but still captivating story: go for it.
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Sucker Punch meets Criminal Minds (Sucker minds / Criminal Punch) Original de: El Extraño Gato del Cuento A Mindy McGinnis la conocí gracias a su libro debut Not A Drop to Drink, libro que recomiendo y hablo casi todo el tiempo, aunque no leí la novela que acompaña al libro, estoy segura de que me gustará tanto o más que A Madness So Discreet. Llevo aproximadamente un mes pensando que escribir en esta reseña. La razón es simplemente porque mi cerebro no está capacitado para darte mi opinión sin soltar spoilers a lo loco o al menos salir de mi modus operandi y darte algunos detalles de la historia. LOCURA DE PORTADA Decir que al menos no te causa curiosidad la portada, sería mentir, porque al menos el vestido o la elección de colores te llamará la atención. Y, entonces, empiezas a notar las otras cosas. El inicio del libro más la gran ayuda visual de la portada me hizo sentirme en la película Sucker Punch (¿la película de Emily Browning?). Tiene esa sensación de desesperación y locura tan atractiva de la película. "WE HOLD TO OUR TRUTHS IN THE DARKNESS" A Madness So Discreet es un libro que será duro de leer al inicio, al menos para mí lo fue. No es porque sea aburrido, todo lo contrario, pero lo que hace que la historia tenga un inicio, es algo bastante cruel y lamentablemente muy real. No quiero decir exactamente que es, solo que la escritora lo tocó con delicadeza de una muy buena manera durante todo el libro, no dejando que se convirtiera en una idealización de algo tan duro o reducirlo a un romance que puede curar y hacer olvidar todo. Si bien el libro empieza con una protagonista que ha tenido que vivir una vida bastante dura, me gustó mucho como al transcurso de la historia se da cuenta de que las cosas por las que tuvo que pasar no son algo que merecía y que a pesar de todo, en su retorcida manera a veces, puede encontrar cosas buenas. Sobre todo con personajes entrañables como Elizabeth y Nell. Pero si has leído a Mindy antes, ya sabes que la señora te romperá el corazón, porque así es ella. *** A Madness So Discreet me encantó, creo que es el único o al menos uno de los primeros thrillers que leo, fue un buen inicio. Si te gusta Criminal Minds, te gustará mucho el libro. Twitter || Blog || Pinterest || Tumblr || Instagram || Facebook
This is a familiar story of detective work by a handsome doctor with a sharp mind and his good looking, vigilant female assistant. What makes me like this story are the characters. Throughout the book I wasn't sure whether one of them (or possibly both) will turn out to be a sociopath. Mindy McGinnis aimed to explore the fine line between sanity and insanity and in my opinion she achived that pretty good in her character's actions. What misleads people and skews their expectations is the asylum-setting and the fact, that most seem to keep the modern and thus progressed definitions of the mental illnesses we come across in this book in mind, when they dive into the story. Just take "madness". Back in 1890 madness was a different thing than nowadays. Of course almost all the characters seem to me, a woman raised with the sience of the 21st century, pretty much sane. Most likely, none of them would be hospitalized in a psychiatry nowadays. The insanity living in the modern days is nowhere to be found in this story. Additional to the missing horrors of human minds, the frights that one expects from an asylum are (mostly) absent as well. We get to see two examples how asalyms might have been in the worst and best case. But judging by the epilogue Mindy McGinnis wanted to focus on the true nature of those institutions back in the 19th century. The ones that were a place for a second chance of a life. But people seemed to expect flickering lights and hidden chambers, where mad doctors are experimenting on children or what ever. Pardon, no creepy effects here. Altough we get a handsome but socially awkward doctor, dissecting brains in his spare time. I actually liked Melancthon and found him to be a very convincing emotionally challenged character. The side-characters were well rounded and fit perfectly into the murder-hunt-backstory. I usually struggle with third POV but McGinnis' writing style works for me since I am already acquianted with her other works. The dectective story is not as entertaining as Sherlock Holmes, which is impossible enough and not as humouring as Jackaby but this book is not about solving a crime or shocking the reader. And it's not an educational story about mental illness. It's as mundane a story as real life can get, showing characters struggling with self-preception and their intimate horrors while crying on your friends shoulder or snapping at your partner. And the best thing: Grace Mae and Doctor Thornhollow are not drowning in some sappy romance. I do believe that love and attention are healing to a broken mind. And we get genuine acts of love and friendship throught the story, which is beautiful. What we don't get is the crappy tropes romance books bury their readers in. There are no excessive descriptions of ones appearance, how beautiful their lashes are and how sensually they cross their ankles blah blah...snore... If you're in for a generic but still captivating story: go for it.