Surely you've heard about In Valeria's shoes. You can well relate it to a book or a Netflix series. Or with both. For this reason, this time we want to focus on the book to discuss with you what you can find in it.
If you haven't given it a chance yet, or are wondering if it's worth reading after watching the live action series, here's the answer to your dilemma.
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The author and architect of Valeria's universe is the writer Elisabet Benavent. This writer was born in 1984 in Valencia and studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia, as well as a Master's Degree in Communication and Art from the Complutense University of Madrid. He was working in a multinational company. However, since she was little she had had a passion for reading and also for writing.
So one day he decided to capture the ideas that occurred to him and in 2013 he published his first novel: En los zapatos de Valeria, which was followed by the rest of the books that make up the saga.
It has sold more than 8,000,000 copies and even the first book has already been adapted into a television series produced by Netflix.
In Valeria's shoes we meet a main character, Valeria. She is in her twenties, and lives in a city whose name the author does not mention, nor does she delimit a time space (a specific month, a year, etc.).
Valeria is from Madrid and is married, but the love she felt for her partner, and which emerged in adolescence, seems to have faded. She is a writer, so, in search of material for a second novel, she leaves it with her friends, Nerea, Lola and Carmen. At the party she meets Víctor, and the two of them begin to connect.
The plot will be about the relationship that arises between Víctor and Valeria, and how she must deal with the situation she is experiencing, since she is married, although she is not having a good time with her partner. Of course, do not think that in the first book you will know what happens with the characters, since it is the first book in the saga.
In Valeria's shoes she has many characters that we could highlight. But those that are more important are:
With En los zapatos de Valeria you don't have a book with a beginning and an end, but rather a saga made up of four. All of them offer a temporality and sequence of events that are happening to the characters. Does that mean you have to read them all? Yes and no. Normally the author leaves them a little closed, but with many unknowns. If it has hooked you, the most likely thing is that, after the first one, you will get the next three on track.
And what are those books? Well:
As we have mentioned before, the saga En los zapatos de Valeria has been adapted into a series. Netflix was the one who took over the adaptation rights and already released several seasons.
Now, those who have read the novels and have seen the series have been "disappointed", since both have points in common, but many that are not as it really happens in fiction.
Therefore, if you really want to know what the real Valeria, her friends and other characters are like, we recommend that you read the book because it will not disappoint you.
Finally, we don't want to leave this topic without giving you reasons to read In Valeria's Shoes, by Elisabet Benavent. In addition to the fact that it was the first novel that this Valencian author released, and that it was so successful, the truth is that there are more reasons for you to read it, such as the fact that it deals with topics that can be important, such as feelings. The fact that it narrates experiences that readers, especially female ones, can identify with, makes them hooked.
In addition, these feelings do not refer only to the couple, but also to friends, self-esteem problems, etc. that, in some way, they can even open the readers' eyes to realize that there are more people who have suffered than they have; or to see the problem in perspective to get out of that "well" where they are.
Although it must be taken into account that it is a novel, and that the author does not delve into these topics, she does give them a voice so that people feel identified with the characters and with the situations that are narrated in the book.
Have you read In Valeria's shoes? Do you share your opinion?
