Language: español
Year of publication: 2024
Valoración: Between recommended and okay
The night, by definition, is full of darkness and mystery, insomens and nightmares, monsters and revelations. The night represents the kingdom of the irrational, of the subconscious, of what is beyond the apparent reality. The night is the territory of what we cannot understand, just intuit. And the night, in this book by Laura Pérez it is the time when the strangest stories happen or, if you want, when the estrangement of the world reaches us. The space of night beings, as the title, that of unexpected defenders and encounters, that of disturbing presences – there are a couple of episodes in the book that, in fact, are true stories of terror – and spiritual recognition in silence, often with, often, animals acting as psychopids. Like deer and foxes, spiders or that owl that acts as a link between the characters in the book, between the experiences of some and the discoveries of others.
Third graphic novel of this author that I read (I do not dare to call them comics), in which I confirm the impressions left by the previous two, Hidden y Totemboth in its most positive elements and those that do not seem so. As in the others, the illustrations show a magnificent invoice, with a very recognizable, hieratic and dark style, and a paused narrative line that helps create the mysterious and transcendent environment that also characterizes the works of this author. On the other hand, the scenes are perhaps too static, with just dialogues and those that are very concise, which can despair to readers accustomed to a more dynamic style. The transitions between the different scenes or stories (perhaps excessive call them so) are well achieved and flow naturally, although perhaps the resource to the owl becomes somewhat repetitive.
Anyway, these are less than a book that, in general, achieves its objective of creating an environment between enigmatic and, of course, dreamlike, with a different way of narrating than the maelstake of stimuli to which it usually bombs us, especially from audiovisual or social networks, but also, sometimes, literary and graphic. Therefore, there is a bit of the 5th in this regard, since not of calm, because precisely what Laura Pérez achieves is to disturb us, surprise us, to reveal, even, to become, to us too, into night creatures.
Other books by Laura Pérez restored in this blog: Hidden, totem
Source: https://unlibroaldia.blogspot.com/2025/04/laura-perez-nocturnos.html
