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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

pnewb's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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juliannereads4fun's review against another edition

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slow-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The prose of this book was jarring. Sometimes sweepingly beautiful and sometimes unnecessarily crass, but really why I didn't like this book was because I didn't like or summarize with a single character. I don't need my protagonists to be "good". I just need to like them. I only stuck with it because I was in the ER and didnt have anything else to get me through 

millaky's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

maksbookstudy's review against another edition

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5.0

Wow. I'm speechless...

conor625's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

arojo1's review against another edition

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2.0

I almost feel embarrassed to say I couldn’t get into this book. It seems to be so well loved but I felt like I was forcing myself to read it instead of enjoying it. DNF.

adiscoveryoflit's review against another edition

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4.0

Rating 4.5

danisosa's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

liinun's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

queenbethie's review against another edition

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2.0

Thank God this book is over, because it just didn't do it for me. And to see that it is a first of a series...wow...I am definitely not exploring this series anymore. It was hard to follow the story and characters, nothing drew me in, and whose first person the book was written in seemed to change and on the audio version, this was not clear. Possibly in a paper version sections are titled with who is the speaker. So glad this is over. Hopefully my next book will be better.