For March’s @bullybookclub read, Al and I reviewed The Shadow of...

For March’s @bullybookclub read, Al and I reviewed The Shadow of the Wind by @zafonoficial!
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Who doesn’t love a book within a book, or a story within a story? That’s what @zafonoficial gave us with #TheShadowOfTheWind.
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The beautiful prose transported us straight to Barcelona’s Gothic quarter, where you can see Al sampled a local delicacy that many of the characters enjoyed as they discussed the mystery of the disappeared author Julian Carax. The investigation is led by a young man named Daniel, from whose eyes we see the life and love story (stories, really) surrounding Carax unfold, including his own as he attempts to break Julian’s cycle by winning the girl and riding off into the sunset.
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“The Shadow of the Wind” is a perfect name for the book, because it’s evokes a sense of what the reader feels along the journey - each turn and twist of the plot felt like an airy, misty morning in a noir Barcelona, casting the story in a smokey fog like floating through old memories. It’s a mystery story, a romance novel, a “whodunnit,” a coming of age tale, and so much more all bound into one spine. As Zafón wrote: “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.“ Join Al and I in your own imagined café off of Avenida Del Tibidabo, and see what part of the book speaks to your own heart’s story.
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