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The Sinner

The Sinner is a “crime drama mystery” show that you can watch at Netflix . It has a good plot, deep characters and the right amount of mystery that clues you in every now and then, without ever revealing too much. Unpredictable outcomes and good cliffhangers at the end of each episode will keep you hooked on this show for hours. You have different stories for each season and both of them are a little disturbing, in their own way. In the first season, we meet a woman with a hard past, filled with psychological abuses, surrounded by hypocrisy and, from my point of view, some madness. Despite that, she kept herself strong, until a single event blows everything out. The detective of the case, the actual connection between both seasons of the show, is a very interesting and peculiar character himself.  At the end of the first season, I couldn’t see much development and potential for a second one, yet recently, I’ve seen that it had been there all along, with Julian...

Ezio

My most recent work... an amazingly beautiful cat that belongs to a sweet friend who has the original.  Sir Ezio!

The Story of a New Name

Within this book, we continue to follow the story of Lenu and Lila. Time passed by them, not a lot, but enough to grow the abyss between these two friends even larger. In this book, we feel like Lenu’s life doesn’t just revolve around Lila anymore, but that makes her feel lost and inappropriate. This was something that really caught my attention, she’s not the perfect hero we’re used to seeing or envisioning. In The Story of a New Name , we see a girl with an ever-growing feeling of not belonging, that hurts her and almost hurts us, despite the fact that rationally this feeling was completely expected.  Lenu no longer belongs to the misery and violence of her neighborhood, yet she’s still not a part of this new world she is now engulfed to. Her insecurities are glaring and it almost hurts us readers that have been following each one of her steps to get here, knowing that she’s doing her best and how much effort she put into this.  She seems depressed, doub...