Romantic or cynical? Evasion or chills? Our selection of pocket books for summer

You may be completing your suitcases before the holidays, looking for the good book that will accompany your holidays. However, Or maybe you are simply looking for a nice book to spend the summer.

Rest assured, we won’t advise you The Comte de Monte Cristo or the last Goncourt. Consequently, You have probably already received them in several copies during the holiday season. However, But here are some ideas for pocket books selected by the culture service of 20 Minutes. Moreover, One watchword: Change air!

To stimulate your imagination – Romantic cynical? evasion chills? our

One saga, two authors, two trilogies. Meanwhile, The guard tower is a great work of Fantasy. Moreover, Or rather fantasy, since the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2024 is a French fresco. Moreover, Claire Duvivier. Furthermore, Guillaume Chamanadjian each wrote a trilogy – Northern capital et South capital – Independent of each other but complementary. For example, The saga takes place in an imaginary renaissance where the story of the two narrators – each in a different city – feeds on political intrigue. Similarly, fantastic adventures. Nevertheless, If the two trilogies. In addition, with very distinct writing, can be read independently, all the salt of the work lies in the game of mirrors with events and characters that sail from one to the other. Nevertheless, The six novels that form the whole cycle are now available in romantic cynical? evasion chills? our a pocket book.

To satisfy your cynicism – Romantic cynical? evasion chills? our

Roach. bookseller in London, dedicates a passion to the killers in series and swears by the books and podcasts of “True Crime”. Laura, her colleague, is her exact opposite. By discovering one evening the talents of poet of the second. the first undertakes to build a friendly relationship with her. She refines her strategies of approaches until her project turns to the Zinzin obsession. In Death of a booksellerpublished in the pocket book. Alice Satler leads her story by alternating, from one chapter romantic cynical? evasion chills? our to another, the point of view of her two main heroines. Small feature: they are each in their very unfriendly way. However. the sarcastic feather and a bit cruel by the author succeeds in making them endearing and clinging to a story whose outcome reserves many surprises. We turn the pages with curiosity and amusement as we would bing a series.

For romantic souls

If you missed it when it came out. it is time to take advantage of the outing in your pocket, at Folio, the Fémina of high school students 2023. What I know about youthe first novel by Quebecois Éric Chacour. narrates the fate of Tarek, a married Egyptian doctor who in Cairo in the early 1980s, fell from Ali, who came from a disadvantaged district. Roman of a love upset by society. this book talks about the choices that we make, renunciations, the influence of family ties. Structured in three parts. the second of which makes all its meaning in the title, this story is carried by a prose which, without much style, touches the heart and is permanently in memory.

To have the chocottes

You have devoured the fantastic saga Blackwater ? So immerse yourself in other works by its author, Michael McDowell, the father of Beetlejuicepraised by Stephen King. For the past two years, the editions Mr. Toussaint Louverture has been reissuing some of his works in pocket format-still with ultra-leaned blankets-as Golden needlesa terrifying. novel which takes place in the New York of the end of the 19th century. Two clans face there: the Stallworth on one side, a bourgeois, wealthy and powerful family, but no less Machiavellian. On the other, the Shanks, crooks and criminals from generation to generation. All will tear themselves into a terrifying and fatal class struggle. And if you want to push cruelty with a notch. let yourself be tempted by Katie or Cold Moon on Babylontwo other novels which give cold in the back.

Breathless

Samantha Shannon is a young British talented author. known in particular for her Best Seller Fantasy series Roots of Chaos, Composed of Orange priory and his prendness A nightfall day. Four volumes that plunge us into a fantastic universe populated by majestic dragons and appalling twilight creatures. In parallel. it is also a struggle of powers within a reinume weakened by the plots, and the various trajectories of the many heroines of the story, all in search of their origins. We are blown away by the concern for detail brought to this romantic cynical? evasion chills? our cinematographic saga. considered by some as the feminine counterpart of Game of Thrones. With the difference that he shakes up the codes of the genre by bringing a real feminist look. celebrating the power of women and the lesbian loves. An exciting and ideal saga to disconnect from gloomy reality.