Author: Rengel, Juan Jacinto Muñoz
- Children/Young
- Debolsillo
- ISBN: 9788490321249
- Release Date: 04-10-2013
-Reviewed by: Daniel Berdaner
El Asesino Hipocondriaco, is an unique story of a contract killer hired to do his job and kill a mark before dying himself.
Do to his convictions and believes, he cannot return the money he took for the contract and each day his waking up in the morning is a miracle to himself, since in his early age had contracted and keep contracting the rarest diseases in the world, without naming his bad luck, that has follow him wherever he goes.
El Asesino Hipocondriaco is an easy to read story, no hard or complicated words have been used to describe at any time during the story, except for the name of different diseases the protagonist has.
It is an original story, not because of the great details the author goes to make us believe and be part of the story, but because our protagonist explain with careful detail most of his illness and give a historical background of famous people that has had the same disease; names such as Poe, Voltaire, Moliere, Kant, etc. are some of the names describes during our story.
The book is written to a young adult reading level, but the names of famous people, detail to each illness and time when it happened will discourage young adult readers to finish the book. To be able to follow all the story behind each illness, the reader need to know some history, know the name of great literature and thinker individuals of all times and like to be introduce to mini short-stories within the main novel.
The book is well narrated, easy to understand and with an ending that it was impossible to predict, but to get there, one needs to endure the many diseases and history chapters that the author makes us go through, to a point that almost kills this great book.
