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

4.0

If I could write my life story to be half as hauntingly beautiful as any work by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, I could die happy. There’s some deep sadness within me after finishing this book (a good kind of sadness) that was left by the artful descriptions and bittersweet longing in this story, as well as the fact that I will never be able to create something as beautiful as this. That being said, as much as I was swept up in this story, it has a few flaws (mostly in the revelation of the whole mystery given by a note near the end of the book, it felt a little too convenient but I still enjoyed it). Also, this will always pale in comparison to the author’s book Marina, that one is the true paragon of perfection.