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Corona de reina: Moneda de cambio
En un mundo postapocalíptico azotado por la plaga de los “coronados”, donde la esperanza es apenas un susurro en medio de la violencia y la desesperación, dos almas encuentran un refugio entre las ruinas. Derek, un hombre marcado por la brutalidad de esta era, y Hanna, una mujer que aún brilla entre las sombras, descubren en su vínculo una razón para seguir luchando.
Enfrentándose a enemigos letales y a los propios fantasmas del pasado, su relación será su mayor fortaleza… y también su mayor debilidad. En un mundo donde cada decisión puede marcar la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte, Derek y Hanna deberán desafiar sus propios límites para proteger a aquellos que aman.
"Corona de Reina - Moneda de Cambio" es una historia intensa y llena de emociones que te llevará a los rincones más oscuros de la humanidad, donde el amor, la traición y la redención son monedas de cambio en la lucha por sobrevivir. ¿Estás listo para sumergirte en esta batalla?
Enfrentándose a enemigos letales y a los propios fantasmas del pasado, su relación será su mayor fortaleza… y también su mayor debilidad. En un mundo donde cada decisión puede marcar la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte, Derek y Hanna deberán desafiar sus propios límites para proteger a aquellos que aman.
"Corona de Reina - Moneda de Cambio" es una historia intensa y llena de emociones que te llevará a los rincones más oscuros de la humanidad, donde el amor, la traición y la redención son monedas de cambio en la lucha por sobrevivir. ¿Estás listo para sumergirte en esta batalla?
472 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2024
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December 2, 2025
I bought this book at a book fair, straight from the author, who was a really nice person. She took a photo with me and my friend, signed the book, and even gave me some stickers with the purchase. I frankly was captivated by the book's theme, and the author herself told me about how she was mainly inspired by The Walking Dead to write this story. Being a huge fan of TWD universe, I imagine it'd be an interesting, grim book with erotic elements to boot, but I supposed the story would mainly be about survival, high-stake scenarios and dark moral dilemmas, as you usually find in post-apocalyptic fiction. However, I was a bit disappointed.
This book clocks in at almost 500 pages. It's quite the novel, but for how extensive it is, it hardly tells much of a story. The plot can be separated in roughly 3 sections: the initial meeting of the two protagonists, their separation, and their reunion. The plot revolves around Derek, an ex-military man who is heavily based on Daryl Dixon, who falls in love with a woman called Hannah by pure randomness. From the get-go, the way the plot develops is very much compact and unnecessarily quick. The two characters falling in love happens way too quickly, and the first pages of the book take too much prose just introducing flashbacks to explain the main characters' personalities and backgrounds. As a result of this, the mystery to any character's motives and actions is clear from the beginning, which quite frankly serves only to take away a decent plot mechanism by which one could develop the characters progressively. Instead, what we get are essentially very static characters that don't change at all throughout the book.
The story in general is just weak in many ways. While it takes place in a zombie apocalypse, the zombies (which the book calls "the crowned") are merely a background element in the story and are almost entirely irrelevant. They only serve for world-building, but are never central to the story in any meaningful way at all. The main antagonist, Adem, and his group, are directly based on Neagan and his Saviors. Every single part of his personality maps to Neagan's, with the only difference being that he's portrayed as a religious leader that's very clearly implied to be Muslim, but without ever outright mentioning it. His intentions, his background and everything else about him, however, is totally omitted, so he only works as a villain for the sake of being a villain, without any explanation whatsoever as to how or why he came to be the person he is.
On the other hand, the main characters, Derek and Hannah, are given backstories, as I already mentioned. The problem, though, is that Hanna's backstory feels more like an afterthought; her life before and at the beginning of the zombie outbreak hardly seems to have much of an impact on her character throughout the book, other than functioning as a convenient plot device to justify how he feels about certain things, for dramatic purposes. Derek's background is much more solid, and it's basically the same as Daryl Dixon's, but there's a sense of dissonance between how his character is portrayed, and how Derek actually acts and thinks. While he's given the personality of a stoic lone wolf from the beginning, he quickly becomes a romantic hero after meeting Hannah and falling in love with her at the speed of light, so instead of getting the quiet, cut-throat personality of the character he's based on, he just constantly thinks of Hannah and says cringeworthy things to himself that directly contrast with how he's first portrayed.
As for the rest of the characters, they're meaningless. Xavier, Anne, Abbe and the rest of the characters are merely fillers. Only one of the characters, Adem, has any background and plays any actually relevant point in the story. The rest you could simply replace at any point throughout the plot and they'd not be missed. Something that also just completely introduces a huge suspension of disbelief is the fact that many of the characters just seem to be parodies. For instance, you've got Abbe, who is literally an old man who likes to use archaic terms, and who is depicted to look literally like Abraham Lincoln. Anne, one of the protagonists' friend, is physically described as a redhead girl with freckles, which reminds me of a certain famous girl from Canadian fiction. There's another character, whose name I can't recall, who is an old lady who seemingly served in the IDF, and as such, she's given a demeanor of superiority, as she also refers to the main antagonist as a "goatfucker" (I am not joking; I can only assume this is either parody, or the author introducing her own agenda into the book).
The most annoying thing about the book, perhaps, is that it's too convoluted. Its pacing is terrible, and it doesn't quite know what it wants to be. While it starts off as a typical zombie survival fiction and tries to introduce some grim, psychological elements at first, it quickly devolves into a romance story. Within the romance, you then get 3 or 4 erotic scenes which are hardly over a page long each. And while the book tries to retain its grim elements at different times (through things like a very short attempted rape scene), it hardly achieves to do so, because it spends far too much of its time focusing on Derek and Hannah interacting with each other like a couple. At times, it tries to introduce action scenes which are mostly just people fighting other people, with Derek seemingly having the superhuman capacity of shooting an automatic rifle one-handed while stabbing people with the other hand. One moment you're made to believe that the protagonist's side is weak; the next they're literally shooting RPGs and decimating the antagonists. The book just cannot decide on what it wants to do or what kind of world and characters it wants to build.
And as I said, the pacing is just terrible. Between the beginning and the end of the book, it's assumed that at least one year has passed. There's hardly any indication of the passage of time. It seems to mostly be implicit; you will end a chapter, and suddenly the next chapter is apparently two weeks into the future, without any immediately-recognizable prose that would indicate that time *has* passed. As a result of this, the entire plot feels like it's happening way too fast, and it's because it is. You might have 3 months pass between 3 chapters, and then have 6 consecutive chapters which take place within 2 hours. There's no sense of uniformity to this, and it is worsened by the fact that the plot basically introduces us into the zombie apocalypse in media res, thus avoiding actually having to build the entire world from the ground-up by just assuming the reader doesn't care about it, or by allowing him to create his own headcannon. The only understanding we get of the apocalypse itself is from short flashbacks which just tell us what some characters did at the beginning; not much more than that. It then tries to compress what should be some 1000 pages worth of storytelling into half of that, thus avoiding building any lore, expanding on any other characters, or explaining the why or how of various things that it just introduces ex nihilo.
Now, the prose itself is not too bad. The author is detailed, and at time uses rich language, but one of the issue that kept bothering me was the fact that this book was written by an Argentine author, who uses a mixture of neutral, Mexican and Spain's Spanish. Not once throughout the book is there any signs of "voseo", or the use of any distinct Argentine terms. Similarly, the entire story takes place somewhere in the United States. As a reader who appreciates authors working within their own culture, it was certainly disappointing to me to read a book that might as well be a translation from an American author. I just couldn't find any originality to it; it felt bleak and generic. I came in expecting a zombie apocalypse taking place in Buenos Aires, and just got a story set in [place], United States, following the same tropes every other story of this kind has.
On that, I also found it a bit unserious how the author tries to introduce cultural references constantly, and how most of these are just violations of Chekhov's gun. One way that the author introduces her own tastes is in each chapter's header: the back of the pages always include lyrics to popular songs, such as "Zombie" by The Cranberries, "Lonely Day" by System of a Down, or "Patience" by Guns 'N Roses, alongside a QR code to the song. I found this to be rather neat at first, but then it quickly got somewhat pointless, as I found that the lyrics quoted and the songs themselves didn't really map very well to each chapter's events. In some cases, characters will literally be shown signing "Sweet Child 'o Mine" by Guns 'N Roses, which adds essentially nothing to the story other than some sort of cultural signaling to the reader. And one of the things that I consistently found annoying is how the author would include specific brands or names for certain objects, without them having any effects. Within the first few pages, instead of saying "a car's alarm went off," she writes "a BMW's alarm went off." Similarly, she often includes the names for guns, like a Desert Eagle, or an AK-47. This would be good if it wans't for the fact that these names mean nothing to the plot; the fact that a character is wielding an AK-47 has no effect at all, neither does the fact that it is the alarm of a BMW that goes off. There's no comparison or logic given as to why these names are included; they're just there for the sake of aesthetics, but you could just say that the car was a Chevrolet and that a character was using a IMI Galil, and it would be literally the same. It also doesn't help that one of the book's locations is called "Paradise City," a generic name outright based on Guns 'N Roses song.
One more minor issue I will bring up is that even though my version of the book is a revised reprint, it still remains with lots of print errors: typos, grammar mistakes, missing punctuation marks, repeated song lyrics (with wrong credits), and else. While I totally understand that this is an independent work, such mistakes being relatively common across the book just makes one feel like nobody really cared to proofread it, or that if they did, they just did not care to fix these mistakes.
However, one of the good things about the book is its visual design. The cover and back cover are relatively good and attractive to one's eyesight. Within the book, every a few chapters you will get a black-and-white depiction of a character or a location, in similar fashion to Japanese light novels, which greatly aids in grounding one's imagination in the author's own vision, creating a much more stable and uniform understanding of the story's world. Similarly, just the decoration of each page, the line breaks, and the small art in each chapter header's page give the book a lot of aesthetic value.
But... it's not all perfect, for all of these images are AI-generated. I truly have nothing against AI, and I would still have preferred to have these AI-generated images than to not have them, but so many of these images feel... cartoony. They are in this uncanny valley between looking like real photos, but being very clearly just drawings due to the lightning, the textures and else. As a result of using AI, the depiction of certain characters slightly changes between different pictures, and some pictures just look terrible. For instance, the picture depicting one of the locations of the book is practically a drone-shot, but every person you can see looks like a child. The cost of printing such pages naturally translates into the cost of the book to the consumer, so if I could have saved a few bucks by buying a version without these pictures, I probably would have, since while they're nice, they're simply not truly worth paying an extra for. And one thing I just found almost absurd is that the book has a notice saying that those AI-generated images are copyrighted... Yeah.
Now, this review's harsh, and it's perhaps because I expected much more than what I got from this book, in dissonance with what I paid for it (truth is that I am broke). Being a revision of a Wattpad story, I guess I should've managed my expections. However, I think the author was a really sweet person, and I think she has the potential to write much better stories, because even if I consider this book to be somewhat mediocre, it's definitely a massive effort that required her to have proper writing skills and creativity. I know her to have written other books, but this seems to be her most recent to date. I think that if she decides to take on a more original approach and write something from the very bottom, without basing the story on other works and by drawing inspiration from her own culture, surroundings and else, then she's totally capable of writing a best-seller in the future. But this one book serves more as a statement of misguided effort and creativity, rather than as a statement of literary prowess.
Perhaps someone else could find "Corona de reina - Moneda de cambio" to be more interesting than I did. If you ever run into it, I'd say you give it a chance, at least if you like romantic-erotic stories with a post-apocalyptic twist. Perhaps you'll find a shiny diamond where I just found an every-day thrift store jewel.
This book clocks in at almost 500 pages. It's quite the novel, but for how extensive it is, it hardly tells much of a story. The plot can be separated in roughly 3 sections: the initial meeting of the two protagonists, their separation, and their reunion. The plot revolves around Derek, an ex-military man who is heavily based on Daryl Dixon, who falls in love with a woman called Hannah by pure randomness. From the get-go, the way the plot develops is very much compact and unnecessarily quick. The two characters falling in love happens way too quickly, and the first pages of the book take too much prose just introducing flashbacks to explain the main characters' personalities and backgrounds. As a result of this, the mystery to any character's motives and actions is clear from the beginning, which quite frankly serves only to take away a decent plot mechanism by which one could develop the characters progressively. Instead, what we get are essentially very static characters that don't change at all throughout the book.
The story in general is just weak in many ways. While it takes place in a zombie apocalypse, the zombies (which the book calls "the crowned") are merely a background element in the story and are almost entirely irrelevant. They only serve for world-building, but are never central to the story in any meaningful way at all. The main antagonist, Adem, and his group, are directly based on Neagan and his Saviors. Every single part of his personality maps to Neagan's, with the only difference being that he's portrayed as a religious leader that's very clearly implied to be Muslim, but without ever outright mentioning it. His intentions, his background and everything else about him, however, is totally omitted, so he only works as a villain for the sake of being a villain, without any explanation whatsoever as to how or why he came to be the person he is.
On the other hand, the main characters, Derek and Hannah, are given backstories, as I already mentioned. The problem, though, is that Hanna's backstory feels more like an afterthought; her life before and at the beginning of the zombie outbreak hardly seems to have much of an impact on her character throughout the book, other than functioning as a convenient plot device to justify how he feels about certain things, for dramatic purposes. Derek's background is much more solid, and it's basically the same as Daryl Dixon's, but there's a sense of dissonance between how his character is portrayed, and how Derek actually acts and thinks. While he's given the personality of a stoic lone wolf from the beginning, he quickly becomes a romantic hero after meeting Hannah and falling in love with her at the speed of light, so instead of getting the quiet, cut-throat personality of the character he's based on, he just constantly thinks of Hannah and says cringeworthy things to himself that directly contrast with how he's first portrayed.
As for the rest of the characters, they're meaningless. Xavier, Anne, Abbe and the rest of the characters are merely fillers. Only one of the characters, Adem, has any background and plays any actually relevant point in the story. The rest you could simply replace at any point throughout the plot and they'd not be missed. Something that also just completely introduces a huge suspension of disbelief is the fact that many of the characters just seem to be parodies. For instance, you've got Abbe, who is literally an old man who likes to use archaic terms, and who is depicted to look literally like Abraham Lincoln. Anne, one of the protagonists' friend, is physically described as a redhead girl with freckles, which reminds me of a certain famous girl from Canadian fiction. There's another character, whose name I can't recall, who is an old lady who seemingly served in the IDF, and as such, she's given a demeanor of superiority, as she also refers to the main antagonist as a "goatfucker" (I am not joking; I can only assume this is either parody, or the author introducing her own agenda into the book).
The most annoying thing about the book, perhaps, is that it's too convoluted. Its pacing is terrible, and it doesn't quite know what it wants to be. While it starts off as a typical zombie survival fiction and tries to introduce some grim, psychological elements at first, it quickly devolves into a romance story. Within the romance, you then get 3 or 4 erotic scenes which are hardly over a page long each. And while the book tries to retain its grim elements at different times (through things like a very short attempted rape scene), it hardly achieves to do so, because it spends far too much of its time focusing on Derek and Hannah interacting with each other like a couple. At times, it tries to introduce action scenes which are mostly just people fighting other people, with Derek seemingly having the superhuman capacity of shooting an automatic rifle one-handed while stabbing people with the other hand. One moment you're made to believe that the protagonist's side is weak; the next they're literally shooting RPGs and decimating the antagonists. The book just cannot decide on what it wants to do or what kind of world and characters it wants to build.
And as I said, the pacing is just terrible. Between the beginning and the end of the book, it's assumed that at least one year has passed. There's hardly any indication of the passage of time. It seems to mostly be implicit; you will end a chapter, and suddenly the next chapter is apparently two weeks into the future, without any immediately-recognizable prose that would indicate that time *has* passed. As a result of this, the entire plot feels like it's happening way too fast, and it's because it is. You might have 3 months pass between 3 chapters, and then have 6 consecutive chapters which take place within 2 hours. There's no sense of uniformity to this, and it is worsened by the fact that the plot basically introduces us into the zombie apocalypse in media res, thus avoiding actually having to build the entire world from the ground-up by just assuming the reader doesn't care about it, or by allowing him to create his own headcannon. The only understanding we get of the apocalypse itself is from short flashbacks which just tell us what some characters did at the beginning; not much more than that. It then tries to compress what should be some 1000 pages worth of storytelling into half of that, thus avoiding building any lore, expanding on any other characters, or explaining the why or how of various things that it just introduces ex nihilo.
Now, the prose itself is not too bad. The author is detailed, and at time uses rich language, but one of the issue that kept bothering me was the fact that this book was written by an Argentine author, who uses a mixture of neutral, Mexican and Spain's Spanish. Not once throughout the book is there any signs of "voseo", or the use of any distinct Argentine terms. Similarly, the entire story takes place somewhere in the United States. As a reader who appreciates authors working within their own culture, it was certainly disappointing to me to read a book that might as well be a translation from an American author. I just couldn't find any originality to it; it felt bleak and generic. I came in expecting a zombie apocalypse taking place in Buenos Aires, and just got a story set in [place], United States, following the same tropes every other story of this kind has.
On that, I also found it a bit unserious how the author tries to introduce cultural references constantly, and how most of these are just violations of Chekhov's gun. One way that the author introduces her own tastes is in each chapter's header: the back of the pages always include lyrics to popular songs, such as "Zombie" by The Cranberries, "Lonely Day" by System of a Down, or "Patience" by Guns 'N Roses, alongside a QR code to the song. I found this to be rather neat at first, but then it quickly got somewhat pointless, as I found that the lyrics quoted and the songs themselves didn't really map very well to each chapter's events. In some cases, characters will literally be shown signing "Sweet Child 'o Mine" by Guns 'N Roses, which adds essentially nothing to the story other than some sort of cultural signaling to the reader. And one of the things that I consistently found annoying is how the author would include specific brands or names for certain objects, without them having any effects. Within the first few pages, instead of saying "a car's alarm went off," she writes "a BMW's alarm went off." Similarly, she often includes the names for guns, like a Desert Eagle, or an AK-47. This would be good if it wans't for the fact that these names mean nothing to the plot; the fact that a character is wielding an AK-47 has no effect at all, neither does the fact that it is the alarm of a BMW that goes off. There's no comparison or logic given as to why these names are included; they're just there for the sake of aesthetics, but you could just say that the car was a Chevrolet and that a character was using a IMI Galil, and it would be literally the same. It also doesn't help that one of the book's locations is called "Paradise City," a generic name outright based on Guns 'N Roses song.
One more minor issue I will bring up is that even though my version of the book is a revised reprint, it still remains with lots of print errors: typos, grammar mistakes, missing punctuation marks, repeated song lyrics (with wrong credits), and else. While I totally understand that this is an independent work, such mistakes being relatively common across the book just makes one feel like nobody really cared to proofread it, or that if they did, they just did not care to fix these mistakes.
However, one of the good things about the book is its visual design. The cover and back cover are relatively good and attractive to one's eyesight. Within the book, every a few chapters you will get a black-and-white depiction of a character or a location, in similar fashion to Japanese light novels, which greatly aids in grounding one's imagination in the author's own vision, creating a much more stable and uniform understanding of the story's world. Similarly, just the decoration of each page, the line breaks, and the small art in each chapter header's page give the book a lot of aesthetic value.
But... it's not all perfect, for all of these images are AI-generated. I truly have nothing against AI, and I would still have preferred to have these AI-generated images than to not have them, but so many of these images feel... cartoony. They are in this uncanny valley between looking like real photos, but being very clearly just drawings due to the lightning, the textures and else. As a result of using AI, the depiction of certain characters slightly changes between different pictures, and some pictures just look terrible. For instance, the picture depicting one of the locations of the book is practically a drone-shot, but every person you can see looks like a child. The cost of printing such pages naturally translates into the cost of the book to the consumer, so if I could have saved a few bucks by buying a version without these pictures, I probably would have, since while they're nice, they're simply not truly worth paying an extra for. And one thing I just found almost absurd is that the book has a notice saying that those AI-generated images are copyrighted... Yeah.
Now, this review's harsh, and it's perhaps because I expected much more than what I got from this book, in dissonance with what I paid for it (truth is that I am broke). Being a revision of a Wattpad story, I guess I should've managed my expections. However, I think the author was a really sweet person, and I think she has the potential to write much better stories, because even if I consider this book to be somewhat mediocre, it's definitely a massive effort that required her to have proper writing skills and creativity. I know her to have written other books, but this seems to be her most recent to date. I think that if she decides to take on a more original approach and write something from the very bottom, without basing the story on other works and by drawing inspiration from her own culture, surroundings and else, then she's totally capable of writing a best-seller in the future. But this one book serves more as a statement of misguided effort and creativity, rather than as a statement of literary prowess.
Perhaps someone else could find "Corona de reina - Moneda de cambio" to be more interesting than I did. If you ever run into it, I'd say you give it a chance, at least if you like romantic-erotic stories with a post-apocalyptic twist. Perhaps you'll find a shiny diamond where I just found an every-day thrift store jewel.
December 18, 2025
Moneda de cambio - SAGA: Corona de Reina es una novela que no se lee con distancia: se vive, se sufre y se ama con el corazón expuesto. Desde sus primeras páginas, la historia nos arroja a un mundo devastado por una pandemia brutal, “La Corona de la Reina”, que no solo destruye cuerpos, sino también estructuras sociales, valores y certezas. Es un escenario posapocalíptico crudo, violento y desesperanzado, pero en medio de esas ruinas, la autora logra sembrar algo profundamente humano: el amor como acto de resistencia.
La construcción del mundo es impactante. La enfermedad, el colapso de los gobiernos, el surgimiento de comunidades cerradas y líderes crueles se sienten inquietantemente reales. Nada está idealizado: la violencia es sucia, el miedo es constante y la supervivencia exige sacrificios morales. Sin embargo, lo que más me atrapó no fue solo el contexto, sino cómo ese mundo extremo moldea a los personajes.
Corona de reina: Moneda de cambioHanna es una protagonista fuerte, compleja y profundamente vulnerable. No es una heroína perfecta: tiene miedo, dudas, momentos de quiebre. Su recorrido está marcado por el dolor, la pérdida y la cosificación, pero también por una determinación silenciosa que la hace admirable. Verla enfrentarse a la opresión, especialmente dentro de Esek y bajo la figura de Adem, fue duro, incómodo y necesario. Es un retrato brutal de lo que ocurre cuando el poder se ejerce sin humanidad.
Derek, por su parte, es un personaje que se construye desde la contención. Es un guerrero, sí, pero también un hombre marcado por el cansancio, por una vida de lucha sin sentido… hasta que aparece Hanna. La relación entre ellos no es inmediata ni edulcorada: crece en pequeños gestos, miradas, silencios compartidos. En un mundo donde todo puede perderse en segundos, el amor entre ellos se vuelve un ancla, un refugio, una razón para seguir vivos.
El romance es, sin duda, uno de los puntos más fuertes de la novela. No desplaza la trama principal, sino que la potencia. Cada escena íntima está cargada de emoción, de urgencia y de una ternura que contrasta con la brutalidad del entorno. Amar, en Corona de Reina, no es un lujo: es un riesgo. Y precisamente por eso, cada declaración, cada beso y cada promesa tienen un peso enorme.
Los personajes secundarios, Anne, Linda, Xavier, Maika, aportan profundidad y diversidad moral. Representan distintas formas de liderazgo, de resistencia y de esperanza. Especialmente conmovedora es la idea de comunidad: personas rotas que, aun así, eligen protegerse entre sí y construir algo nuevo desde las cenizas.
El cierre de la historia, con la llegada de una nueva vida, es profundamente simbólico. No borra el horror vivido, pero le da sentido. Es una afirmación clara: incluso después del apocalipsis, el amor puede crear futuro.
Moneda de cambio es una novela intensa, oscura y profundamente emocional. Habla de guerra, abuso y muerte, pero también de ternura, elección y esperanza. Es una historia que deja marcas, que incomoda y que, al mismo tiempo, abraza. Un libro que demuestra que, incluso cuando el mundo se rompe, el amor puede seguir siendo la moneda de cambio más valiosa. Ya estoy esperando la continuación por favor!!!!
La construcción del mundo es impactante. La enfermedad, el colapso de los gobiernos, el surgimiento de comunidades cerradas y líderes crueles se sienten inquietantemente reales. Nada está idealizado: la violencia es sucia, el miedo es constante y la supervivencia exige sacrificios morales. Sin embargo, lo que más me atrapó no fue solo el contexto, sino cómo ese mundo extremo moldea a los personajes.
Corona de reina: Moneda de cambioHanna es una protagonista fuerte, compleja y profundamente vulnerable. No es una heroína perfecta: tiene miedo, dudas, momentos de quiebre. Su recorrido está marcado por el dolor, la pérdida y la cosificación, pero también por una determinación silenciosa que la hace admirable. Verla enfrentarse a la opresión, especialmente dentro de Esek y bajo la figura de Adem, fue duro, incómodo y necesario. Es un retrato brutal de lo que ocurre cuando el poder se ejerce sin humanidad.
Derek, por su parte, es un personaje que se construye desde la contención. Es un guerrero, sí, pero también un hombre marcado por el cansancio, por una vida de lucha sin sentido… hasta que aparece Hanna. La relación entre ellos no es inmediata ni edulcorada: crece en pequeños gestos, miradas, silencios compartidos. En un mundo donde todo puede perderse en segundos, el amor entre ellos se vuelve un ancla, un refugio, una razón para seguir vivos.
El romance es, sin duda, uno de los puntos más fuertes de la novela. No desplaza la trama principal, sino que la potencia. Cada escena íntima está cargada de emoción, de urgencia y de una ternura que contrasta con la brutalidad del entorno. Amar, en Corona de Reina, no es un lujo: es un riesgo. Y precisamente por eso, cada declaración, cada beso y cada promesa tienen un peso enorme.
Los personajes secundarios, Anne, Linda, Xavier, Maika, aportan profundidad y diversidad moral. Representan distintas formas de liderazgo, de resistencia y de esperanza. Especialmente conmovedora es la idea de comunidad: personas rotas que, aun así, eligen protegerse entre sí y construir algo nuevo desde las cenizas.
El cierre de la historia, con la llegada de una nueva vida, es profundamente simbólico. No borra el horror vivido, pero le da sentido. Es una afirmación clara: incluso después del apocalipsis, el amor puede crear futuro.
Moneda de cambio es una novela intensa, oscura y profundamente emocional. Habla de guerra, abuso y muerte, pero también de ternura, elección y esperanza. Es una historia que deja marcas, que incomoda y que, al mismo tiempo, abraza. Un libro que demuestra que, incluso cuando el mundo se rompe, el amor puede seguir siendo la moneda de cambio más valiosa. Ya estoy esperando la continuación por favor!!!!
December 9, 2025
Mi mujer llegó de la Feria del Libro de Córdoba con este ejemplar bajo el brazo, triunfante como si hubiera cazado un bicho raro en el monte, y lo cierto es que terminé agradeciéndoselo. "Moneda de Cambio — Corona de Reina" me sorprendió para bien: esperaba un romance juvenil más, pero Java R. Dixon arma un mundo postapocalíptico que se siente vivo, áspero, lleno de polvo y decisiones incómodas. Los personajes no tienen esa perfección plástica que a veces aparece en el género; se equivocan, dudan, cargan culpas. Y esa humanidad es lo que sostiene todo.
La autora juega con la tensión emocional sin caer en lo melodramático, y el romance (que pensé que me iba a aburrir a la segunda página) está tejido con un cuidado que se nota. Se siente necesario para la trama, no un adorno. Para un lector cincuentón que viene curtido de clásicos y ciencia ficción dura, esto fue una grata sorpresa. Terminé leyéndolo más rápido de lo que pensaba, con esa sensación casi adolescente de “una página más antes de dormir”.
Da gusto cuando un libro que no buscaste te encuentra igual. Y este, vaya uno a saber por qué conjuro de feria, lo consiguió. Si te atraen las distopías con un corazón que late fuerte, vale la pena.
La autora juega con la tensión emocional sin caer en lo melodramático, y el romance (que pensé que me iba a aburrir a la segunda página) está tejido con un cuidado que se nota. Se siente necesario para la trama, no un adorno. Para un lector cincuentón que viene curtido de clásicos y ciencia ficción dura, esto fue una grata sorpresa. Terminé leyéndolo más rápido de lo que pensaba, con esa sensación casi adolescente de “una página más antes de dormir”.
Da gusto cuando un libro que no buscaste te encuentra igual. Y este, vaya uno a saber por qué conjuro de feria, lo consiguió. Si te atraen las distopías con un corazón que late fuerte, vale la pena.
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