Scar is a thriller 2015 published by Editions B (Penguin random house). It has the signature of Juan Gómez-Jurado, the best-selling Spanish author of the genre worldwide. Several book series, works of children's and youth literature, and more than a dozen independent novels are named after him. Whether you are a follower of the genre or if you prefer to read something else, surely you have heard a lot from him.
This novel has been published in dozens of countries and its premise does not leave you indifferent. Simon Sax is a successful person and he is about to make more money than he could ever dream of. He is that kind of people capable of achieving everything, but with enormous difficulties to relate. Meeting Irina on the internet will lead him to fall in love and experience new sensations, despite the fact that the girl keeps secrets that begin with the scar that marks her face.
Scar
A relationship marked by the unknown
Scar It has everything you need to hook up. In addition to having an amazing story, it is brimming with suspense and also with love. Simon Sax is a Chicago-based IT and IT expert. You have created a unique algorithm that could make you a billionaire. However, his Achilles heel is personal relationships, since it is difficult for him to get close to a woman or to establish a more intimate relationship. Thus, When he meets Irina, a mysterious Ukrainian through the Internet, his world turns upside down.. Despite the distance, she falls in love and feels something she had never felt for anyone: an unknown passion. The point is that he doesn't know Irina very well either, she is a girl who seems to be surrounded by secrets and with a mark on her face, a scar, about which she hardly wants to talk.
Juan Gómez-Jurado is a master in the narrative of intrigue and suspense. The thread of the plot seeks coherence and the flashbacks that appear help to generate plasticity in history, and better understanding of events. He also dominates the description that, without being tedious, turns the text into accessible prose and perfectly sets the story situations. Situations that, moreover, are carried out by some interesting and attractive characters, quite well outlined. It will be easy to see that one does not always fall in love with the right person.
Secrets, mysteries and dangers
Scar it shows how two worlds can meet and interact despite the fact that one can destroy the other. Simon's unremarkable life is turned upside down when Irina arrives in Chicago.. With it also appears the real conflict, where the Russian mafia can be deadly and the protagonist, who would never have imagined himself in such a situation, must learn to float without drowning.
The book from the beginning knows how to suggest the reader and puts him in a situation as well so that you feel comfortable and with a voracious appetite until the end of the story. After the preamble, Scar offers unexpected discoveries to the reader, since the writer makes you think things that are not so that the surprise can be double. And of course, there is a crucial respect for the plausibility of Simon and Irina's story that unfurls unhurriedly across the pages, granting the reader an omniscient role that spurs them on.
It is also characteristic of the author that there is some humor in the narrative. The characters and the dialogues where you can glimpse certain irony that helps to paint the framework of the novelas well as release tension.
Conclusions
Secrets, mysteries and dangers. Scar It is an enigmatic novel with all the ingredients of the genre and that captivates the reader without remedy. Rhythm is also a writing lesson that turns Scar in a fast-paced novel with love and revenge, action, mutual salvation of the protagonists and the perpetual touch of thriller. Juan Gómez-Jurado does it again: an intriguing and addictive novel, where everything is calibrated and oriented, with a perfect ending and narrative mastery. It is difficult to be disappointed.
About the Author
Juan Gómez-Jurado was born in Madrid in 1977. She is a journalist by training, having studied Information Sciences at the CEU San Pablo University. Over the years she has worked in different wide-ranging media (TVE, Canal Plus o COPE chain), And there was a time when Gómez-Jurado dedicated himself to alternating his journalistic work with creative writing. And while he hasn't entirely abandoned the media profession, the success of his books has carved out a literary career for which he is now renowned.
His books have also seen the light of day in the audiovisual medium, and even Hollywood is already considering some projects. His novels stand out for the weight of suspense thriller, a genre in which the author moves like a fish in water Seeing the millions of readers that he accumulates and the fame that surrounds him at a national and international level. Among his best-known works are the trilogy "Red Queen", The patient o everything burns.