My opinion about: The Love Detective and Love From Paris by Alexandra Potter.

The Love Detective (2014) and Love From Paris (2015) are two books written by Alexandra Potter, she is a British author of  romantic books, I’ve just read two but I loved them.

First of all I want to tell you how I got to read these books. I read the books in different order, first I read Love From Paris and then I read The Love Detective, I didn’t know they were two, but never mind, the thing is, once you read one you will totally want to read the other, these book are really fun and easy to read, so you will be able to read them fast because you will not get bored, and if you like reading love stories, then go ahead and read these novels.

Sorry for the spoilers if I give any…I will try to tell very little about the plot.

•  The Love Detective

The Love Detective is the story about this English author named Ruby, she writes love stories, however she is having a hard time trying to write, she just had a recent and awful break up with her fiance so she doesn’t seem to find the right things to write, so her agent, Diana tells her to go on vacation for a couple of days, Ruby listens to Diana and decides to go to India, where her little sister is…

She will go on a road with an American stranger and an Indian man, she starts believing in love again, you know when you travel you tend to believe in new things, you meet some people, new places, new experiences, I mean, how could you not to, the Taj Mahal, and all those beautiful places and people, everything is so different from London. However not everything is perfect, because she has many obstacles to overcome, will she be brave enough to finish this trip or will she go back to England before even trying? She starts getting to know a guy who is helping her after all her things were stolen, but Ruby just does not believe in love anymore, or in men, so it is very difficult for her, but the best part of everything is that this journey have so many weird things happening, is it coincidence? is it destiny? This is amazing, somehow all this trip it suits like a puzzle.

I really loved this book, this story is really romantic and so pure, it is my favorite of the two, if you are a person who like love stories then you will probably love The Love Detective.

SPOILER ALERT because now I will write a little about the second book about Ruby.

• Love From Paris

In this book, Ruby decides to go to Paris, after she was supposed to meet her boyfriend, who is coming from the U.S.A., but Jack stands her up at the airport, Ruby lives in London, so she goes to France to visit one of her best friend who is living there, this is so weird, she decides to go with her dog, but she cannot travel with a pet in the train, so she met this nice old man who is travelling with her grand daughter and they will help Ruby and her dog.

Her friend is working on a new project, they are going to sell and apartment that the time had stood still, it is amazing and weird, when Ruby goes to this apartment she finds some letters that seems to have been there for a long time, Ruby decides to read those letter and she will try to find the answer of the mystery, who wrote those letter? Why someone paid the bills for an apartment that was empty? .

She also meets a French lawyer, they talk, he is nice but hey, she has a boyfriend, but she also is feeling a little bit insecure, you know that sometimes you just tend to think way too much and you start believing things that never happened.

In this book Ruby becomes the person who will solve the mystery and she will do her best to answer all the doubts she has, no one really knows what happened in that apartment. Will she see her boyfriend again? Will she find love in Paris?

I really don’t want to say more, but this book is really beautiful too, go ahead and read it, after reading these amazing books I can say that probably I keep reading this author, because I like the way she writes, and sometimes you just need to read and forget about all the stress of the daily life and the kind of books are great for that and well, for believe in love again, READ…

sorry for my English, but my native language is Spanish and I live in Chile.

Ro

Crítica sobre Las Chicas de Alambre.

Las Chicas de Alambre, del escritor español Jordi Sierra i Fabra fue publicado en 1999  por la editorial Santillana y luego más tarde por Alfaguara en 2008.

Este libro lo tuve que leer hace muchos años en el colegio, por lo general, los libros que daban en el colegio siempre me aburrían, pero este libro me gustó mucho y lo he leído ya varias veces, es por esto que decidí escribir mi opinión sobre esta historia.

El libro cuenta la vida de tres modelos conocidas como las chicas de alambre que estaban en lo más alto de sus carreras, este nombre se les dio por su figura muy delgada, en la que todos las admiraban y eran consideradas como perfectas.

Luego de una década desde que ya no se sabe nada de Jess, Cyrille y Vania, que son las tres modelos, que por distintas circunstancias desaparecen del ojo público, una revista decide hacer un reportaje de ellas y averiguar qué sucedió realmente justo para la fecha de aniversario de los diez años. Cyrille y Jess murieron, pero realmente no se sabe qué sucedió con Vania. Cyrille nació en el Cairo y Jess en Ohio, Estados Unidos, mientras que Vania era española.

El libro cuenta cómo entraron a la industria de la moda, cómo se hicieron famosas, y cómo fue que sus vidas terminaron de forma tan trágica luego de tanto éxito. No diré ni cómo ni porqué mueren porque ya sería dar muchos spoilers, ahora la duda surge al preguntarse ¿será posible que Jon Boix, el periodista a cargo de la investigación, logré averiguar qué fue lo que realmente sucedió con Vania? Jon Boix deberá recorren un largo camino para tratar de averiguar e investigar todo lo que necesita para llevar a cabo el reportaje.

No diré nada más y los invito a leer este libro, a mí, como dije anteriormente, me gustó mucho, creo que habla mucho sobre la industria detrás de la moda, no todo es glamour y felicidad, sino que detrás se esconden historias humanas mucho más interesantes y a veces brutales de cómo funciona ese mundo.

Ro

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, P.S. I Still Love You, Always and Forever Lara Jean: Mi opinión

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, P.S. I Still Love You, Always and Forever Lara Jean: Mi opinión

To All The To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, P.S. I Still Love You, Always and Forever Lara Jean: Mi opinión

Digo mi opinión porque siento que una crítica es algo que debería hacer alguien con más experiencia que yo, antes que todo diré que había escrito mucho y  se me borró, no sé cómo, en fin.

Estos libros fueron escritos por Jenny Han y tratan sobre Lara Jean, una niña que vive con sus dos hermanas y su papá, su hermana mayor se llama Margot, a quien le dicen Gogo y su hermana menor que se llama Katherine, pero le dice Kitty. Su papá es médico y es viudo, su madre murió hace unos años cuando Margot tenía 12, Lara Jean 9 y Kitty 2 años (creo que recuerdo bien), su mamá era coreana y su padre estadounidense, pero todos viven en Charlottesville, Virginia, Estados Unidos. Yo diría que estos libros son para adolescentes, pero yo tengo 28 años y de todas maneras me gustaron mucho, el primero lo compré porque siempre compro libros pero estaba un poco pobre de dinero y este libro estaba barato y la verdad me sorprendió mucho.

La foto la puse en inglés, porque esos son mis libros, que los leí en ese idioma.

• A Todos Los Chicos De Los Que Me Enamoré (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) fue publicado el 15 de abril de 2014, (por lo menos la fecha del libro en inglés).

Comienza a contar la historia de Lara Jean, cómo vive, ella tiene una muy buena amiga llamada Chris y un amigo Lucas, Margot está a punto de terminar los estudios para luego ir a estudiar a Escocia en la Universidad, por lo que termina con su pololo Josh. Lara Jean solía escribir cartas a los chicos que ella quería, pero las guardaba nunca las envió, pero un día, las cartas se envían, Lara Jean no sabe qué sucedió, pero los chicos remitentes de las cartas las reciben y se dan cuenta de los sentimientos que alguna vez Lara Jean tuvo por ellos, además Lara Jean en esta época comienza una relación falsa con uno de los remitentes y establecen reglas para seguir con esta mentira. No diré nombres para no dar spoilers.

• P.D. Todavía Te Quiero (P.S. I Still Love You) se publicó el 26 de mayo de 2015, (por lo menos la fecha del libro en inglés).

Luego de una pelea entre Lara Jean y alguno de los chicos, ella se da cuenta que tiene sentimientos por uno, espera reconciliarse. Un video de ella con uno de los chicos es subido  a internet y todos piensan que estaban teniendo sexo, pero en realidad, Lara Jean no es ese tipo de chica. Margot aconseja a Lara Jean a que busque trabajo y ella decide seguir los pasos de su hermana mayor y se ofrece de voluntaria en una casa de retiro en donde conoce a una agradable anciana, llena de vida, simpatía que da consejos a Lara Jean. Kitty por mientras, trata de que su papá salga en citas con una vecina de ellos. Lara Jean comienza a enviarse cartas con uno de los chicos, pero ella continúa teniendo sentimientos por otro, pero la ex novia de él hace surgir incertidumbre a si esto puede o no suceder.

• Siempre y Para Siempre Lara Jean (Always and Forever, Lara Jean) se publicó el 2 de mayo de 2017, (por lo menos la fecha del libro en inglés)

Lara Jean ya saldrá del estudiar para partir a la universidad, tiene un novio y es muy feliz, me encanta la relación que tiene con su novio, pero esta nueva etapa comenzará y quizá no todo volverá a ser como era antes, la mamá de ellas siempre decía “don’t be the girl who goes to college with a boyfriend” (no seas la chica que va a la universidad con pololo), a veces quieres ir a cierta universidad, pero no siempre lo que deseas resulta, no obstante, la vida te puede dar sorpresas, el amor que se tienen será suficiente o no. Alguien muy querido para Margot y Lara Jean muere. Su padre también está en una relación seria y se casará, Margot tiene un nuevo pololo y Kitty está más madura, pero sigue siendo una niña, su regalo de graduación es un viaje para ella y sus hermanas a Corea.

Espero no haber dado demasiados spoilers, pero realmente los invito a leer estos libros, son fáciles de leer y rápidos, además simples, quizá si están en la misma etapa que Lara Jean los pueda ayudar con sus decisiones, pero lo más importante es que son entretenidos, yo empecé y me los leí muy rápidos, porque nunca me aburrieron, así que adelante, a leerlos.

Aaah, y además, ahora están haciendo la película y en mi humilde opinión, es siempre mejor leer el libro y luego ver la película.

Ro

To All The To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, P.S. I Still Love You, Always and Forever Lara Jean: My opinion

I say in my opinion because I feel that a review is something that should be done by someone with more experience.

These books were written by the american Jenny Han and are about a girl named Lara Jean, a girl who lives with her two sisters and her dad, her older sister is called Margot, who is called Gogo and her younger sister is called Katherine, but they call her Kitty. His father is a doctor and a widower, his mother died a few years ago when Margot was 12, Lara Jean 9 and Kitty was 2 years old (If I remember well), her mother was Korean and her father . American, but they all live in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. I would say that these books are for teenagers, but I am 28 years old and anyway I liked them a lot, the first one I bought it because I always buy books but I didn’t have much money at the time  and this book was cheap and the truth is that it really surprised me because I really liked it.

• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before was published on April 15, 2014.

The book tells the story of Lara Jean, how she lives, she has a very good friend named Chris and another friend called Lucas, Margot is about to finish high school and then is about to leave for college and she’s studying in Scotland, so she broke up with her boyfriend Josh. Lara Jean used to write letters to the boys she liked, but she kept the letters, never sent them, but one day, the letters are sent, Lara Jean does not know what happened, but the guys got the letters and realized the feelings that Lara Jean once had for them, in addition Lara Jean at this time begins a false relationship with one of the boys and establish rules to continue with this lie. I will not say names because I don’t want to give away spoilers.

• P.S. I Still Love You (P.S. I Still Love You) was published on May 26, 2015.

After a fight between Lara Jean and one of the boys, she realizes that she has feelings for one.  A video of her with one of the guys is uploaded to the internet and everyone thinks they were having sex, but in reality, Lara Jean is not that kind of girl, also her dad finds out about this, but the guy protects her. Margot advises Lara Jean to look for a job and she decides to follow the footsteps of her older sister and volunteers in a retirement home where she meets a nice old woman, full of life, sympathy who always is willing to give a piece of advice to Lara Jean. Kitty for the time being, tries to get her dad to go on dates with a neighbor. Lara Jean begins to send letters with one of the boys they become pen pal, but she continues to have feelings for another guy, but his ex girlfriend makes her feel unsecure.

• Always and Forever Lara Jean (Always and Forever, Lara Jean) was published on May 2, 2017.

Lara Jean will leave school to go to college, she has a boyfriend and she’s very happy, I love the relationship, they look so cute together (at leas that’s what I imagine when reading the book), but this new stage will begin and maybe not everything will be as it was before, their mother always said “do not be the girl who goes to college with a boyfriend”, sometimes you want to go to a certain college, but not always what you want is what you get, however, life can surprise you, the love you have will be enough or not. Someone dies, someone who Margot and Lara Jean love a lot passes away. Her father is also in a serious relationship and is getting married, Margot has a new boyfriend and Kitty is more mature, but still a kid, her graduation gift is a trip for her and her sisters to Korea.

I hope I have not given too many spoilers, but I really invite you to read these books, they are easy to read and fast, also simple, maybe if you are in the same stage as Lara Jean can help you with your decisions, or at leas make you feel NOT alone but the best part is that these books  are really fun to read. I started and I read them very fast, because I never got bored, so go ahead, and read them. Besides they are filming the movie now and I think it’s better to first read the book and then watch the movie.

Ro

Sorry for my English but it’s not my native language.