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The Labyrinth of the Spirits
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The last 50 pages of this novel made it miss out on four stars.
The first two books of this series were masterpieces, beautiful, artfully written pieces, the third was a bit of an information dump and quite disappointing and now this book.
The main story of the Labyrinth of the Spirits is good, the new characters and their mystery quite interesting, but there are several elements hidden within this new tale trying to spin the story of the Sempere family which did not make sense and somewhat broke part of the story. I was incredibly disappointed in the lack of care put into David Martin's death. overall the story was quite good, however, but the last instalment was from the perspective of Julian and somewhat ruined the book.
I can see what Zafón is trying to do, I know how he's trying to weave the tale, but the pages from Julian become boring, he starts to go on and on when really it should have been a small part, and the way he is portrayed is hard to like. I ended up skimming paragraphs to get past his part.
Zafón tried way too hard to make the storyline up perfectly, ending with Julian bringing his daughter to the cemetery, however, we barely know the daughter, she is created purely for this purpose and it is hard to emotionally connect when the audience doesn't know her.
Personally, I would recommend the first two books, but I'm not sure if reading the next two will just disappoint anyone who enjoyed the first two.
The first two books of this series were masterpieces, beautiful, artfully written pieces, the third was a bit of an information dump and quite disappointing and now this book.
The main story of the Labyrinth of the Spirits is good, the new characters and their mystery quite interesting, but there are several elements hidden within this new tale trying to spin the story of the Sempere family which did not make sense and somewhat broke part of the story. I was incredibly disappointed in the lack of care put into David Martin's death. overall the story was quite good, however, but the last instalment was from the perspective of Julian and somewhat ruined the book.
I can see what Zafón is trying to do, I know how he's trying to weave the tale, but the pages from Julian become boring, he starts to go on and on when really it should have been a small part, and the way he is portrayed is hard to like. I ended up skimming paragraphs to get past his part.
Zafón tried way too hard to make the storyline up perfectly, ending with Julian bringing his daughter to the cemetery, however, we barely know the daughter, she is created purely for this purpose and it is hard to emotionally connect when the audience doesn't know her.
Personally, I would recommend the first two books, but I'm not sure if reading the next two will just disappoint anyone who enjoyed the first two.