Review: The things They Didn't Bury (The best book)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2013
The Things They Didn’t Bury is the story of Liliana, an expat who returns to Argentina. After being 14 years away, she has to return to her country, live in her grandparents’ house and learn about a war recently over. However to lighten up her burden as soon as she arrives Diego comes into picture.Returning to a country she doesn’t remember while looking for clues of her mother destiny will take her through a path full of holes and secrets. She will dig into the past to discover the true and cruelties of the war.Liliana is an 18-year-old girl, a future college student with all her life ahead. She always has felt something is missing. Not knowing about the past can make you feel incomplete and she never fully knew how her mother disappeared and died.After finding her mother’s diary the past and the present will mix to create a story about truth, love, family and fear, but above all a story about finding out where we come from and where are we going. With Diego’s help she gets in touch with war survivors, witnesses of a dark time whose wounds are still open. The thing is that sometimes the answers will not be what she expected.The romance between Liliana and Diego is spectacular and heartbreaking, in the middle of a risking searching we see a wonderful love grow and blossom into the perfect couple for this story. Other high point is the Gypsy spice, the flamenco and gypsy culture make the book even more interesting to read.The intensity of the writing is one of the best I have ever read. The author has the ability to transmit through words feelings and scenes that get to your core and make you shiver, with descriptions that provided all you need to picture a time that will scare you more than a horror movie.It’s hard to write about the evil inside some people and it's even harder to capture the inhumanity lived by some victims without being disrespectful or being a cliché. Laekan has a touch to do it with an excellence worth a big round of applauses.I totally recommend it not only for its quality, the truth behind a war that did happen and the love story. I recommend it because is one of those book that leaves you questioning yourself and also humanity. A book that will change your essence and will transform your soul.*** I received an ecopy from the author in exchange of an honest review. ***