Books June 2025

Love is a monster of God
Luciana de Luca · Barret
The Andalusian publishing house Barret brings us a disturbing text where the hot and sticky atmosphere plays like another character.. Love is not a monster of God by Luciana de Luca is a novel about brutality and otherness, with illustrations by artist Lisa Ivory that highlight a story called to stay. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)

The art of manufacturing dreams
Francesc Miró Barlin Books
From the Protestant roots of capitalism, until the hegemony of the American dream, passing through Hollywood cinematic fantasies. The essay The art of creating dreams explores how we have come to believe that effort and sacrifice, disconnected from the role played by the system in which we live, They are the pillars on which success is built. Again, The Barlin publishing house offers us a lucid essay with which to enter the imminent summer. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)

The accident
Blanca Lacasa Asteroid Books
A new that condenses in less than one hundred pages the complicated mechanism of seduction in which we have all felt like participants at some point.. With direct language, effective and full of irony, Blanca Lacasa captures us in this story about the absurdity of love and desire, that makes us blush, softens and stirs equally. To devour in one sitting. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)

The ice of yours
Montse Sánchez Alonso Transit
The True Story of Ada Blackjack, a young Iñupiat who in 1921 He embarks on an Arctic expedition with four explorers and faces hunger, the cold and the polar bears after the death of their companions. The novel explores the colonial and patriarchal violence suffered by Ada, as well as the recovery of the indigenous identity that was taken from them. His lyrical prose and powerful description of Arctic landscapes stand out., that capture the relationship between humans and nature. The ice of yours is a moving adventure about resistance, decolonization and feminine strength in a hostile and ecocidal world. LIGHTS ROMERO

Silences that kill
Jordan Harper · Black Salamandra
With a very cinematic structure, through short scenes full of intensity and a good dose of new information, Jordan Harper serves us a noir colored with Hollywood intrigue. corrupt police, potentates who believe themselves above good and evil, unscrupulous politicians and an entire manipulation industry at their service willing to cover up and bury their shame. Absorbent. S.M.

Always backwards and forwards
Josep Vicent Frechina · It seems
Why Zoo has fallen in love with thousands and thousands of Valencians? How it has become a global phenomenon capable of hooking the public outside the Catalan linguistic area, in Spain and around the world? This is what Josep Vicent Frechina tries to explain to us through the group's songs, artifacts with a perfect mixture of hedonism, (auto)criticism, rap with identity and poetic elements, melodic refrains, euphoric wind arrangements and festive electronic bases. Always backwards and forwards is a book designed for followers of the flagship of the most important cultural and social movement experienced in Valencian lands in the 21st century. S.M.

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