A review by erasmios
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke

4.0

I've seen the film several times, lastly a few years ago, and I don't think anything from the movie was missing from this novelization. It's a quick, fun read, a modern fairytale that adds its own flavour to the dark mix in the form of character and monster backstories, something extra that wasn't the focus of the film. We also get an opportunity to visit the minds of the main characters. The antagonist Capitán Vidal is just as mad and ruthless and there are no justifications for his philosophy, he's pure evil. Coupled with gorgeous illustrations it's a book I can easily recommend to fans of fantasy and del Toro.