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aldoaguirreg's review against another edition
2.0
El libro acaba con la oración: "El Zorro me tiene harto y creo que ha llegado el momento de ponerle punto final."
En eso podemos estar de acuerdo.
La verdad le daría un 2.5/5. Ya al final lo único que quería era acabarlo. La juventud de Diego de la Vega en California es interesante, y creo que lo que más me gustó del libro. Fuera de eso encuentro una narrativa monótona, aburrida, con personajes sin ninguna profundidad, y con una trama muy predecible. Lo que hizo con "el misterio del narrador" se me hace que no aporta nada a la historia. De hecho el narrador llega a caer mal, en mi opinión.
Creo que lo hubiera disfrutado más si lo hubiera leído más entre los 15 y 18 años.
En eso podemos estar de acuerdo.
La verdad le daría un 2.5/5. Ya al final lo único que quería era acabarlo. La juventud de Diego de la Vega en California es interesante, y creo que lo que más me gustó del libro. Fuera de eso encuentro una narrativa monótona, aburrida, con personajes sin ninguna profundidad, y con una trama muy predecible. Lo que hizo con "el misterio del narrador" se me hace que no aporta nada a la historia. De hecho el narrador llega a caer mal, en mi opinión.
Creo que lo hubiera disfrutado más si lo hubiera leído más entre los 15 y 18 años.
belockwood's review
5.0
One of the best versions of the Zorro story I have ever encountered. It's like the Batman Begins movie, but for Zorro. You get to see how Diego de la Vega becomes the talented masked vigilante - where his convenient set of unique skills and strong passions come from. It is set in both Barcelona and California and offers enchanting imaginings of both.
kendralu's review
4.0
I loved this rendition of Zorro so much that I am even thinking of making Benji be Zorro for Halloween. It was fun, exciting and romantic. A perfectly quick pre-summer read. Allende is a master at creating characters, both male and female, that are clever, capable, and strong.
nate_reads's review against another edition
2.0
How is it that a character, a time period and a story that should be compelling fail to be so in the course of this book. The book is not about Zorro in his prime but more of a "Zorro Begins" story. There are always going to be comparisons between Zorro and Batman and those are on full display here as well although the character predates the latter in every sense of the word. This book serves as an origin story connecting flawlessly to the 1990s film "The Mask of Zorro." I wish this book had been better it had so many things to love historic setting of California, pirates, War of 1812, Napoleonic Wars, swashbuckling, Francisco Goya, secret societies, Romani, & Native Americans. Yet with all of those things this book drags throughout the middle the brief climax at the end isn't enough to redeem this book. I wanted to like this because I really like the movie and the character but this just didn't do it for me.
colorfulleo92's review
4.0
I recently read the original (I think) Zorro novel and wasn't very impressed. I remembered that I've seen that Isabel Allende had written a spin off/retailing and very quickly borrowed it from the library. It's a good book as I almost always enjoy Isabel Allende's writing and it certainly helped this time. I don't think I'm as intrigued by the Zorro story as I had thought. I watched a movie with Zorro growing up and loved it but years and more since then and I've most likely grown out of it. Still a very good story just not quite my thing
dozylocal's review against another edition
Good fun. It's more a prequel than about the life of Zorro, so deals with everything up until Zorro assumed his role in the new Americas. Did drag a little in the middle, but still very good.
laura_m_j's review
5.0
I have always had such a huge crush on Zorro, I had to read the book...and I liked it.
juliaz_13's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars. Epilogue was pretty bad but I really enjoyed the first half
bdfarber13's review
2.0
I love the Zorro story. This did not really do it justice. I adore Isabel Allende's short stories, but this was tedious and wandering, not at all like other work I've read by her, which is heavy on the lyrical and magical. I like the historical foundation a lot; it was just irritating to listen to and atrociously long for such a slow paced story. Sexist, chauvinist tones radiates from the narration, too.