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lindagreen 's review for:
The Midnight Palace
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
As always, Zafon is a masterful storyteller and from the very first sentence I was entranced. His lyric prose alone is reason enough to read his works but, in this particular story, he seems to shine with a youth orientated plot of mystery, adventure and suspense all rolled together. Zafon has this ability to capture the world around him with such unique and realistic descriptions that it makes you feel like you have dropped into the middle of this world he has created – both the good parts of his world and the darker, more sinister ones. Although it’s been on my TBR shelf for ages, I had not yet read the first in this series but when I received the galley proof, I jumped at the chance to read it and had no problem following the story and characters. The book although listed in some places as juvenile really is for the YA audience. The word choices, grammar usage and content are not for the younger set and most would get discouraged and give up just a few pages in. Older and advanced readers might want to give it a try but I think the book would be better aimed at the high school set.