A review by justagirlwithabook
The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Never have I read a series of books quite like The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, and this last book is hard for me to describe. I’m sad, in many ways, that it’s all come to an end, but then has it really? I read the series in the order it was published, and reading this last book made me want to revisit each story all over again, looking for all the extra details I missed the first time, perhaps to gain a better understanding of the characters and all the details of the story as a whole, but also to truly admire what Zafón has managed to accomplish in these four volumes. While The Shadow of the Wind has been one of my favorites and one that I regularly, highly recommend, it will be hard to recommend the first book on its own in the future now knowing that the true magic is the story found within all four novels.

At some point I’ll return to provide a fuller review here, but in the meantime, I think I’ll be lost in the labyrinth of my thoughts for a bit.