The 3 best books by Nerea Riesco

With themes usually linked to historical fiction, in the style of Maria Dueñas o light gabas, but in turn complemented with developments towards a more mysterious side, Nerea Riesco composes in his bibliography a very suggestive literature.

And it is that this journalist who has exploited her vocation for letters in an area of ​​the novel in which she moves like a fish in water, transports us in each of her plots to places of remote times thanks to her absolutely empathetic characters.

And from those protagonists with whom we immediately connect, we assault intense loves and many other no less transcendental mysteries.

La historical fiction, as a broad genre in which it has a place from the simple set design to the novel with overtones of a real chronicle, it gives a lot of itself. And under the umbrella of this genre, it is precisely these hybrids, such as those presented by Nerea, that get the most readers in their composition of fast-paced intra-stories in very specific locations raised with exhaustive documentation.

So if you like to know history from that point of view that is closer to mundane reality, sprinkled with the rigorous mystery from which to compose exciting stories, Nerea Riesco can be extremely interesting for you.

Top 3 recommended novels by Nerea Riesco

Mondays at the Ritz

Spain appeared in 1929 to ideological tensions and the most bitter conflicts. The tinsel of the Ritz hotel is for Martina a first approach to high society that tries to defend its privileges against this incipient desire for modernity of the less favored classes.

Martina has been drinking the winds for Bosco ever since she met him at one of the hotel's posh dances, but her love increasingly fades as her idealization grows. But Martina is not carried away by that impossible love and directs her concerns towards social welfare. Until the first ardors of the Republic threaten all its good work, because on every side there are always those who decide to take justice into their own hands without adjusting to the egalitarian and respectful ideology with which any assault on power is sold.

Between Martina and Father Eugenio they dedicate themselves to saving what it took them so long to raise in favor of the poorest. But history insists on making it very crude.

Mondays at the Ritz, by Nerea Riesco

Ars Magica

At the time I wrote the long story that I attach in the following link about the Witches of Zugarramurdi. I was passionate about this tragic episode that marked a before and after in the disappearance of such autos de fé of the Inqusición. So this book already entered me through the right eye. The protagonist of this story is the same as the one in my story, an Alonso de Salazar y Frías who did not have all of them with him regarding the cruel task of that fateful day in 1610 in Logroño.

In the same way as in my story, the doubts of this protagonist serve to introduce characters from that other dark side into the plot. Because it turns out that Mayo, a girl who could pass for a witch, crosses the path of the inquisitor to magnify all those disquisitions about the origin of the murders disguised as purification.

During the trip and adventure between the two of us, we discovered an exciting scene of Spain steeped in superstitions and magic that only points to desires from the medical to the emotional, but which, at that time, transformed the popular imagination into spells, fears and fantastic environments .

Magical Ars, by Nerea Riesco

The gates of paradise

Probably the most emotional of Nerea's stories. From the blindness of Yago a plot is built in 1482 in which such a deficiency plunges the protagonist into much more intense darkness than those of his own blindness.

Only the performance of his father under the court of the Catholic Monarchs saves him from ending up repudiated like any other person with some deficiency. In that court Iago is not happy, the world closes on a sense that he cannot dispose of. So, when he arrives in Granada after the defeat of Boabdil and meets Nur, his sister, his entire existence is paradoxically filled with color on the side, until then, the enemy.

Because Nur teaches Iago to discover the world from another sensuality beyond the merely sensory. Between them a passion full of lights is born in the darkness of an old defeated Muslim kingdom and a new Christian kingdom burdened under the dark patterns of Catholicism as punishment, punishment and strict morals. A curious story full of adventure.

The gates of paradise, by Nerea Riesco
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