Showing posts with label the shadow of the wind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the shadow of the wind. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon


Of course I loved The Shadow of the Wind so why wouldn't I love The Angel's Game? Of course I loved it. Gave it 5 stars. I just love how Carlos writes. I also love to read about books and writers too. I hear that these two books are part of a 4 book seres...?? I am sooo excited! I loved how he brought back Sempere & Son and the bookshop. It's always nice to know what happened to the character you loved so much. I loved Daniel's character in The Shadow of the Wind and was very excited when he was brought back into the story. Although you don't hear much of him you still like to know where he went in life.
I brought this book in Large Print simply because I didn't want the Hardback version. So of course it was 732 pages rather than the 500+ pages but that didn't stop me. I read it in just 3 days!
Anyways, this story is of a writer who had nothing and still lost everything and LOVED to read and write, so much so, that he sold his soul. This story has so many twists and turns and introduces a large array of colorful characters. I thought it was a nice pleasant, fast paced read.
This is one of the books originally from both my NAME Challenge and my ABC Title Challenge. So cross this off my list!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon


WOW!!! This deserves 5/5 stars! I loved everything about it. From start to finish I had goosebumps , whether it was from fear, or anger, or sadness, or love I had shivers. It is an amazing piece of work and I can't believe I didn't read it earlier. I ordered this book some time ago and did not read it yet and the other day I didn't have time to get to the library so I just took this one with me to work and I read it in 3 days. I couldn't put it down.

Of course there were a lot of predictability but when I read it aloud it just felt like a surprise. I don't want to even dare speak any more about it in fear that I will give something away. I just wish that everyone has a change to read it because it is simply an amazing read!

Carlos Ruiz Zafon write YA's and this is his first adult novel and I say he did a pretty damn good job. He has another adult book that recently made it's debut: The Angel's Game but I am trying not to purchase it yet because it will not be out on paperback until March 2010 and I'd hate to have it out of sequence.

Go and read it!!!