El Clan by Carmen Mola ****

Reading dates: 11 May – 2 June

El Clan is a direct continuation of Las Madres, and while the last one was about forced surrogacy, this one is about organ trafficking. Even if I saw the denouement coming a mile off, the novel is darker, and even more brutal: two main characters die. Soon, there will be no more left of the original line up. In fact, even the Brigade has been closed. Although the new co-leader is an interesting addition and the woke-ness has been somewhat calmed, I will miss the development of the old gang of characters. I felt they were going somewhere, although it might be to their demise. All the deaths make sense up to a point, apart from the hacker’s (we don’t know what she discovered). But the writers are not sentimental. They don’t get attached to anything in the stories and keep the bare minimum to call this is a series (The Elena Blanco series – she is still alive). Where will it go? I am less clear about how it might be continued and the internet tells me El Clan closes it, becoming a quintet.

Ella le da un beso en los labios, un beso de buenos días que él siempre intenta alargar. Odia los besos rutinarios, defiende que un beso debe tener algo carnoso, sensual, picante, un poco de intención.

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Se cuentan lo bueno y lo malo a trompicones, en un torrente continuo, como si fuera un intercambio de golpes o una noche de besos y mordiscos por todo el cuerpo.