by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMy rating: 4 of 5 starsWith Shadow of the Wind as one of my top 10 favorite books of all time, I started this book with high expectations. This author can tell an amazing story full of mystery, shadow, and elaborate twists and turns.
Zafon's style of writing is captivating and suspenseful with a lush, foggy, dreamlike quality to it. If any of his books were to be made into a movie, I would pick Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro to direct them in the style of Pan's Labyrinth.
And of course, Zafon features Barcelona as one of his favorite characters in a love-hate relationship kind of way. Barcelona is his mistress. Beautiful to look at, but full of secrets that could destroy you.
Zafon loves to write about writing. His love of books in obvious in his recurring image of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a labyrinth in the middle of the city that protects manuscripts of soon-to-be-extinct books
It's a page-turner as you follow the main character, David Martin, first struggling to make it as a writer and later delivering on a deal with the devil as he writes a book designed to start a new world religion. It's a complicated plot that draws you in, but does occasionally make you need to go back and check who is who.
I still don't feel like I fully understand all that happened within it pages, but I am okay with that. I enjoyed the mental game of pealing back the layers of this story one by one long after I have read the last page.
Bottom line is that The Angel's Game
is definitely a good read, but Shadow of the Wind
still holds the spot as my favorite Zafon book.
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