Reviews - Marina | The StoryGraph

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This was so much more than I thought it would be. Struggles of being a teenager, friendship, murder, mystery, bizarre experiments, the macabre, total love and loss, and just a touch of steampunk creation. As a reader who sees the story as a movie in my mind, this created amazingly brilliant visuals. So much so that hours after finishing the book I was trying to place what film the images my mind was replaying; only to realise is was actually Marina.

myjourney2020's review against another edition

4.0

Second book by this author and it did not disappoint! I grew to love the characters of Oscar and Marina. It is a gothic story, but one with heart. A good read!

zengoalie's review against another edition

4.0

Really enjoyed how I was able to see what Barcelona looked like through the authors words. A creepy, scary, lovely touching story that the two main characters venture on.

psychologist_reads's review against another edition

4.0

This was the first Zafon novel that I read and I absolutely loved it. It's an amazing, modern gothic with likeable heroes, intriguing story and magnificent atmosphere. Madrid sounds like a truly beautiful city and I'd very much like to visit it one day. The only thing that bothered me was that there was more of a sci-fi/fantasy feeling to it than I would have liked; though I am an avid fantasy reader, I just don't really dig novels that are kind of unsure of whether there is a fantastic element or not. I do enjoy the ambiguity when I feel it was done on purpose, but Marina didn't really give me that impression, it was just a little genre-confused, in my opinion. That' the only reason I'm giving 4 stars instead of 5, because everything else in this books is brilliant and I will definitely be reading more of Zafon's work in the future.