evie_stevie 's review for:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3.0

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I started reading this book 2 years ago on my honeymoon and was so bored because the pacing was truly terrible for the first 300 pages. Put it down for 2 years and finally, by page 300, it became enticing. The main mystery of Lain Courbet’s identity was not difficult to deduce, I guessed it upon the first introduction, but the revelation shared by Julian’s mother threw me for a loop. Once that plot twist was shared it was all uphill. The prose of this book is stunning, and I genuinely liked the plot and the moody gloomy atmosphere, but the pace was just so inconsistent that I couldn’t love it.