A review by oashackelford
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3.0

I think that if you are a fan of poetic language, then this is a good book for you. I didn't enjoy it much. Based on the description of the book I thought that this was going to be a fantasy novel, or focus more on the cemetery of forgotten books, but instead it focused more on discovering and understanding the life of the author of one of those books in Post-war Spain. I thought that it was beautifully written and I got the same feeling from reading this book that I did when I watched Pan's labyrinth. That is to say, that I will probably think about this book a lot, and it was haunting, but it definitely isn't something that I would choose to read again.