Hello dear Readers,
My book review of La Chica de Nieve by Javier Castillo.
Title: La Chica de Nieve
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Author: Javier Castillo
Publisher: Suma
Publication Date: July 21, 2020Language: English
Book Description
The perfect thriller that changes the rules of the genre.
The most famous Thanksgiving Day Parade on the planet.
A three-year-old girl goes missing.
Where is Kiera Templeton?
New York, 1998, Thanksgiving Day Parade. Kiera Templeton, only three years old, disappears into the crowd. After a frantic search throughout the city, someone finds a few strands of hair along with the clothes the little one was wearing that day.
In 2003, the day that would have been Kiera's eighth birthday, her parents, Aaron and Grace Templeton, receive a strange package with something unexpected: a VHS videotape with a one-minute recording of Kiera, playing in a room. Miren Triggs, a journalism student at Columbia University, is attracted to the case and begins a parallel investigation.
After his great success with El día que se perdió la cordura / The Day Sanity was Lost, El día que se perdió el amor / The Day Love Was Lost, and Todo lo que sucedió con Miranda Huff / Everything that Happened to Miranda Huff, with over 650,000 copies sold, Javier Castillo returns with Snow Girl, a game of mirrors and a dark journey into the deepest parts of despair. This is a novel that shows that the worst always goes unnoticed.
The most famous Thanksgiving Day Parade on the planet.
A three-year-old girl goes missing.
Where is Kiera Templeton?
New York, 1998, Thanksgiving Day Parade. Kiera Templeton, only three years old, disappears into the crowd. After a frantic search throughout the city, someone finds a few strands of hair along with the clothes the little one was wearing that day.
In 2003, the day that would have been Kiera's eighth birthday, her parents, Aaron and Grace Templeton, receive a strange package with something unexpected: a VHS videotape with a one-minute recording of Kiera, playing in a room. Miren Triggs, a journalism student at Columbia University, is attracted to the case and begins a parallel investigation.
After his great success with El día que se perdió la cordura / The Day Sanity was Lost, El día que se perdió el amor / The Day Love Was Lost, and Todo lo que sucedió con Miranda Huff / Everything that Happened to Miranda Huff, with over 650,000 copies sold, Javier Castillo returns with Snow Girl, a game of mirrors and a dark journey into the deepest parts of despair. This is a novel that shows that the worst always goes unnoticed.
My Thoughts
Was eager to read something in Spanish, specifically a thriller. Had seen Javier Castillo books around for a while, and one day while browsing at the bookstore saw La Chica de Nieve, his most recent release, and decided to get it.
Glad I did. It was just what I needed.
La chica de Nieve is the story of Kiera, who at the age of three disappears at the Thanksgiving Parade in New York in 1998, and the desperate and painful journey her parents, the Police, and a journalist, Miren Triggs, go through, for many years, to try to find Kiera.
The story goes back and forth between the different periods of time the story unfolds at. I have always loved books told this way because it makes it easier to follow through.
The story evolves mainly around Miren, the journalist, and Kiera. I found Miren to be a very enigmatic, and complex character. The author does a great job in developing her story. Found her willingness to not give up in finding Kiera very compelling, almost like if by finding her Miren could save herself from all the pain she has carried for so long.
I love the setting of the story, New York. You can tell the author did a great job on his research. Description, dialogue, and character development, well done.
Overall, I liked La Chica de Nieve a lot. All the elements there, suspense, twists, unique but relatable characters and unexpected ending. I recommend 100% for Thriller/Suspense lovers.
Wendy
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