Everything returns
Everything returns It is the second volume of the successful thriller Everything burns, written by the Spanish journalist, presenter, comedian and author Juan Gómez Jurado. The work was published by Ediciones B on October 10, 2023. As is often the case with best-selling books, the novel has mixed reviews. Some regular readers of Juan praise his agility, while others claim that it is one of his weakest works.
For its part, specialized critics have left highly positive reviews regarding Everything returns, ensuring that it is an entertaining, addictive and dizzying suspense and that Juan Gómez Jurado is one of the best Spanish-speaking crime novel writers. Furthermore, the sales speak for themselves, as the book has managed to sell more than 3.000.000 copies since its launch.
Brief presentation of the context of Everything returns
Un thriller very original
Everything returns belongs to the universe of Red Queen, a literary heptalogy made up of The patient (2014) Scar (2015) Red Queen (2018) Black wolf (2019) White king (2020) everything burns (2022), and, finally, the book of this review. Although both the sixth and seventh titles can be read independently —like a biology—, it is interesting to verify and contrast the relationships between the two.
In the best Brandon Sanderson style, Juan Gómez Jurado has created his own world, which is unique within the thriller. This worldview intertwines characters, settings and hidden messages that can only be fully understood when the complete work has been read, because it is intended to be a whole. The project has attracted so much attention that it will even be adopted into a television series format by Amazon Prime Video.
Second part of the series Everything burns
Everything burns told the story of three very different women who met at the worst point in their lives. Aura Reyes was a successful executive with high financial resources whose husband was cruelly murdered. Mari Paz was a former legionary who had to sleep in her car when her existence took a nosedive. Sere completes the trio as a super-intelligent jacker with an ambiguous personality.
Now in Everything returns, After having taken revenge for the injustices committed against them, they return to solve a new case. Mari Paz is chased by hitmen while she tries to escape with Aura's two daughters. At the same time, the latter has drawn up a devilish plan that doesn't seem to make sense, but turns out to be her only option to be safe and see her little ones again.
Everything returns, a song to freedom
This novel by Juan Gómez Jurado falls within the youth genre for several reasons, and one of the most important is the author's fast-paced style and the way in which themes such as crime and the sense of freedom are addressed. This fact is made evident with the plot of Aura, who is locked up in prison and is under threat of death. To escape from her, she depends on her two allies.
In this sense, Sere and Mari Paz once again form a golden trio in pursuit of justice when two girls are separated from their mother. But everything is too complicated for things to turn out well, although those who have read Gómez Jurado will know that Its protagonists have the tendency to recover from even the most unusual defeats, which is not an exception in this volume.
Juan Gómez Jurado, the best-selling author of the Spanish language
Currently, this Madrid author is called “the best-selling author in the Spanish language,” and this is not just a bombastic epithet, since it is based on tangible facts. It all started with the first books of Red Queen, among which are included Black wolf y White king. For two full years the work remained in first place among the most read nationally.
This not only catapulted the writer to fame, but forced him to create other books for an increasingly growing wave of fans. However, his success has only begun to grow, as, Together with Bárbara Montes, a child psychologist, he created the series Amanda Black, aimed at children. If he has achieved all this at just 45 years old, it is possible to expect much more from the prolific author.
About the author, Juan Gómez Jurado
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John Gomez Jurado was born on December 16, 1977, in Madrid, Spain. A curious fact about his life is that he was abandoned at birth in the maternity hospital on O'Donnell Street in Madrid. Luckily, a family adopted him. After finishing his high school degree, he graduated in Information Sciences from the CEU San Pablo University.. After graduating he worked in various media outlets.
Collaborated with platforms such as COPE chain, Major 40, ABC, Jot Downy New York Times, Book Review y Radio Spain. Later He began his literary career with God's spy, which was quite successful. Over the years, Juan Gómez Jurado has continued to evolve both in the literary and audiovisual media, being part of the cultural podcast Almighty of Telefónica Space.
Other books by Juan Gómez Jurado
Novela
- God's spy (2006);
- Contract with god (2007);
- The Traitor's Emblem (2008);
- The legend of the thief (2012);
- The Secret History of Mr. White (2015);
Children's and youth literature
- The seventh prince (2016)
Alex Colt Series
- Space cadet (2016);
- The Battle of Ganymede (2017);
- The secret of the Zark (2018);
- Dark matter (2019);
- The Emperor of Antares (2020);
- the great zark (2022)
Rexcatadores Series, together with Bárbara Montes
- The mystery of Punta Escondida (2017);
- The mines of doom (2018);
- The underwater palace (2019);
- The dark forest (2019);
Amanda Black series, along with Bárbara Montes
- a dangerous inheritance (2021);
- the lost amulet (2021);
- The last minute (2022);
- The Jade Bell (2022);
- the sepulchral toll (2022);
- The curse of the Nile (2022);
- the raven staff (2023);
- The lost kingdom (2023);
- The way of the ninja (2023)
Audiobook
- The Drops (2022)
Non-fiction
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Anatomy of a Tortured Mind (2007)