The phenomenon ‘Red Queen’It has been awakening the inner detective of many Spanish-speaking readers for years. Now, with the premiere of series on Amazon Prime Videothe story starring a brilliant mind and a Basque police officer has crossed the boundaries of what has been written and has reached the sofas of many more people.
There will be, among them, who are interested in knowing the continuation of the story and, therefore, to read the trilogy by Juan Gómez-Jurado. But it’s not as simple as buying ‘Red Queen’, ‘Black Wolf’ and ‘White King’ and simply reading them. The story of Gómez-Jurado It’s much more than that.
What is the ‘Red Queen Universe’?
Does anyone know the ‘UCM’ or ‘Marvel Cinematic Universe’? That cluster of superhero stories that intertwine to form one; movies with different protagonists whose actions have consequences for the characters of others. Something like that happens with ‘Red Queen’.
In this case, Juan Gómez-Jurado has created a ‘literary universe’: books that, a priori, are independent, but that share characters and stories that form the same reality. Consequently, what happens in one book affects the others, although none of them needs the other to tell their own story.
Trilogy or heptalogy? The books that are part of this framework
Those who have already informed themselves will know that the strictest story from ‘Red Queen’ has three parts:
“Antonia Scott is special. Very special.
He is not a police officer or a criminalist. He has never held a gun or worn a badge, and yet he has solved dozens of crimes.
But Antonia hasn’t left her attic in Lavapiés for a while. The things she’s lost about her matter far more to her than the ones waiting out there.
He also does not receive visitors. That’s why he doesn’t like it at all when he hears unknown footsteps going up the stairs to the top floor.
Whoever it is, Antonia is sure that he is coming to look for her.
And he likes that even less.”
“Staying alive has never been so difficult. Antonia Scott is not afraid of anything. Only herself. But there is someone more dangerous than her. Someone who could defeat her. The Black Wolf is getting closer. And Antonia, for the first time, she’s scared”.
I hope you haven’t forgotten about me. Let’s play?
When Antonia Scott receives this message, she knows very well who sent it to her. She also knows that game is almost impossible to win. But Antonia doesn’t like to lose.
After all this time on the run, reality has finally caught up with her. Antonia has a black belt in lying to herself, but she is now clear that, if she loses this battle, she will have lost them all.
These three titles make up the official trilogy, where we follow the adventures that the brainiac Antonia Scott and the detective Jon Guitérrez face as a team. Gruesome murders, breathless chases and corruption of the system in all its forms are some of the pieces that fit into the puzzle of this trilogy.
But the limits of knowledge of this ‘Universe’ do not end in ‘King Blano’. In fact, they don’t even start with ‘Red Queen’. And four other books by Gómez-Jurado shape the reality in which Antonia Scott lives, and some of them were published before ‘Red Queen’.
Reading order of this literary universe
Total, The seven books that make up the story are: Red Queen, Black Wolf, White King, Everything Burns, Everything Comes Back, The Patient and Scar. The author himself has confessed his order of preference for reading it, which coincides with his chronology premiere, which is the next:
1.The patient
2.Scar
3.Red Queen
4.Black Wolf
5.White king
6.Everything Burns
7.Everything returns
To this is added a short book called ‘The Secret History of Mr. White’, which expands the story of this mysterious character presented in The Patient and who appears again during other volumes of this ‘heptalogy’. The correct order to read this ‘mini comic’ is second, before ‘Cicatriz’.
Will there be more ‘Red Queen’ books?
Although Juan Gómez-Jurado has not confirmed anything certain, he already let it be known that the adventures of the peculiar duo of protagonists had not come to an end. “Antonia and Jon will returnand the story of Aura, Sere and Mari Paz is essential to this,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter) talking about his latest novel, published in October 2023.
2024-03-05 17:17:35
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