BOOK JACK

Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s The Birthday Party turns a seemingly casual gathering into a tightly wound psychological drama, led by a magnetic Willem Dafoe and a cast that keeps every exchange unsettlingly alive.

Baltasar Kormákur’s Apex pairs Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, and Eric Bana in a polished survival thriller that delivers tension and star power, even if its deeper ambitions never quite land.

Jeong Yu-jeong’s Seven Years of Darkness is a bleak, gripping psychological thriller that explores murder, inherited guilt, and the devastating aftermath of violence with chilling emotional depth.

First published in 1982, Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits is a sweeping multigenerational novel that blends family drama, political upheaval, and subtle magical realism into one of modern Latin American fiction’s most memorable works.