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    <body><![CDATA[The Angel's Game actually takes place in the same area of Barcelona as SOTW. Set in the period just before the civil war that leads up to SOTW. The main character is David Martin, who at the beginning of book is working at a newspaper &amp; gets his chance to be a writer. Soon with the help of of his fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42077771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another engaging and beautifully written page-turner from the author of <em>The Shadow of the Wind</em>.  I imagine ZafÃ³n takes great care in choosing every single word in his books.  The links to <em>Shadow</em> are the bookshop Sempere and Son and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.  This novel features a darker plot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28260486">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Do you love a book that has people dying in fetid pools, rotting in chambers, burned alive?<br/>Do you love gothic novels that leave you feeling bleaker than you did when you sat down to read with your bag of microwave popcorn?<br/>Do you love books that attack belief systems by dismissing the sup...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66857611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was able to take advance of an advance copy to read this one before the June release date.  This story follows a writer in 1920s Barcelona through his writing for a newspaper, for himself, and a a mysterious man who promises him riches for writing a story that the man wants.  That's where things g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42168852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this author is SO talented.   The translator must be extremely talented, as well.   I loved Zafon's first book, Shadow of the Wind, and was very excited to read his newest one.  This is going to be a four-part series, and I am already looking forward to the next one.    The setting is simila...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59718385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't think I haven't noticed you spamming me with ads and recommendations, goodreads. Don't think I've forgotten how profoundly mediocre Zafon's first novel was. Don't think I don't lose a great deal of respect for any author who resorts to cheap advertisement of their book over the internet, on te...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60001163">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, so maybe I was partial to this book because it takes place in Barcelona, and that was one of our honeymoon stops two years ago (TWO YEARS ALREADY!).  Regardless, it brought back the gothic streets and the unusual architecture of the city.  I really liked his writing style, but I am left to wonde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65804838">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved The Shadow of the Wind and expected this book to be my favorite book of the year. Perhaps my expectations were too high to give it a fair chance. I didn't care for the story. I rarely felt like picking the book up after taking a break but continued to think that there would be som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51264628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine a cross between Pan's Labyrinth and Pulp Fiction.  Mix in a little bit of Brazil and that's close to what Zafón has created in The Angel's Game.  It's a gothic, noirish, grindhouse, paranormal, over-the-top pot-boiler mystery-thriller set in the pre-Civil War Barcelona, Spain of the 1930's. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75498425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Expectations plays a substantial role in this novel, both the Dickensâ€™ novel and the hopes and aspirations of our narrator David Martin â€“ oh, not forgetting the great expectations of Shadow of the Wind devotees who have been left waiting in the wilderness for 5 years.  So, have our expecta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51011502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zafon takes us back to the 'cemetary of books'.  Only years prior to Daniel's birth.  We meet his father and many of the prior character in Barcelona who re-appear in Zafon's saga.  It is comforting and reassuring to know the old characters in their youth and meet new ones along the way.  Perhaps I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44555672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With <em>The Angel's Game</em>, Zaf&#243;n does more than just return to the Barcelona he created for <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70722121"><em>Shadow of the Wind</em></a> (albeit some couple decades earlier). He returns to so many of the themes of the previous book that one wonders if he isn't trying to tell the reader something of the nature of stories. Perhaps...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78330423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No doubt Zafon is a great storyteller.  His imagination, imagery, and dialogue are all wonderfully rendered in a novel.  But with The Angelâ€™s Game, it just got away from him.  Itâ€™s like a bedtime story you tell your child that starts off with great promise but since you donâ€™t quite know how to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77454104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hate it when I break my own rules. One of my cardinal rules for reading books is that when I really fall in love with a book, I need to pace myself a little bit before reading another book by the same author, otherwise I always end up disappointed. It's like eating a second ice cream sundae in one...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76212569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was first introduced to Carlos Ruiz Zafon in his amazing book The Shadow Of The Wind.  It was suggested to me by a friend who said it was his favorite book of all time.  I was skeptical since I had never even heard of the author, but I was quickly mesmorized by Shadow of the Wind and could not wai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75731545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The prequel/companion to the amazing <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232.The_Shadow_of_the_Wind" title="The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafÃ³n">The Shadow of the Wind</a>, I was a bit nervous to pick this up.  Sometimes when you find that first book that you absolutely adore, as I did with Zafon's first offering, you hesitate to read the next book.  Could it possibly be as good?  Will it disappoint?  Sophomo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75413730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The other book of Zafon's that's been translated into English, The Shadow of the Wind, is one of my favorite books ever. This book was also good, but I didn't find it to be at the same level. It was just too murder-mystery-ish for me. I wasn't expecting to be playing detective in a game of cat and m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75356543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me shiver, many times.  It had that slightly claustrophobic gothic tone to it that disturbs me more than the usual supernatural stories.  In really good gothic writings, it's hard to tell if the protagonist is insane, or if there are supernatural forces at work.  And in &quot;Angel's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73480257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first saw this book on the shelf in Borders, and was, to be entirely fair, attracted by the title 'The Angel's Game, alone. I love love LOVE pretty much any book with supernatural elements of the Angel/Demon kind. Don't ask me why - I just do. But upon closer inspection, my attraction waned somewh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71966474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I count Zafonâ€™s first novel, The Shadow of the Wind, as one of the best works of modern European literary mysteries this side of Umberto Eco or Arturo Perez-Reverte. It is a stroke of artistic brilliance in which he carefully unveiled his multi-layered mystery for the reader that was simultaneousl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69971079">more...</a>]]></body>
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