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Enkelipeli

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3.9 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Amé... Qué libro más tremendo, que historia que no me ha dejado soltarlo ni un momento.
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nie wiem co się dzieje ale buja

I listened to this book

3.5 en realidad. Cabo de terminarlo y me ha dejado sin palabras. Me ha gustado, mucho, pero no me ha fascinado como la sombra del viento aunque eso era bastante difícil.

Si hay un lugar que me gustaría conocer es la Librería Sempere e hijos. Aún más que el Cementerio de los libros olvidados.
Este libro me gustó mucho, no más que el primero, eso sí, debo admitirlo, pero me entretuvo y me mantuvo en vilo.
Espero que el resto de la saga se mantenga al nivel de la primera mitad...
adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I think Carlos Ruiz Zafón has already achieved one thing that all writers (at least, if I were one) would like to achieve: whenever people read some of your words (and it doesn't even need to be a long chapter), they recognize you immediately. Even without all the little references to The Shadow of the Wind - I particularly loved one, very near the end, which I can't reveal, so not to spoil anything -, or maybe because I've read TSOTW so many times already, I think I would recognize his style, his words, his everything, anywhere. I found this book a little darker than the previous one and at the beginning that was bothering me a little, but then I just embraced it and went with it and it made for a magical reading, to the point where I stopped myself from reading too much too soon, to make the book last a little longer. Maybe because of that "suspense" that I exaggerated a little, I was expecting a bit more in the end, and I feel like I didn't get all the answers I needed and deserved after so much mystery and drama, and that's why I don't give it 5 stars. But it's a solid 4,5!

I wanted to give 5 stars but the fact that it kept me for more than 3 quarters of the book without having any idea what is going on made me a bit annoyed.
It is a really good book and I totally recommend it!