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abbythompson 's review for:
The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I first read Zafon's Shadow of the Wind nearly 10 years ago. Not sure why it's taken me so long to read the follow-up novel, but I am so glad I did.
Pulp novelist David Martin is presented with an offer he cannot refuse: for a princely sum of money, write a new religion. This offer is made by a man referred to as "the boss". He is elegant and ageless. (The devil?)
The city of Barcelona in the 1930s serves as the setting for this story, though like the city of Edinburgh in Ian Rankin's Rebus series, Barcelona is more than a simple setting. Barcelona is a dirty, seething, rotting city on the edge of the world (so it feels).
The story bubbles at a slow simmer for most of the book, though the end is an outright hard and fast boil. I'm amazed at how all the loose ends got tied up/resolved. Zafon is a master of plotting and how he kept track of every thread was phenomenal.
Pulp novelist David Martin is presented with an offer he cannot refuse: for a princely sum of money, write a new religion. This offer is made by a man referred to as "the boss". He is elegant and ageless. (The devil?)
The city of Barcelona in the 1930s serves as the setting for this story, though like the city of Edinburgh in Ian Rankin's Rebus series, Barcelona is more than a simple setting. Barcelona is a dirty, seething, rotting city on the edge of the world (so it feels).
The story bubbles at a slow simmer for most of the book, though the end is an outright hard and fast boil. I'm amazed at how all the loose ends got tied up/resolved. Zafon is a master of plotting and how he kept track of every thread was phenomenal.