Review of The Prisoner of Heaven

Once again, Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafon has given a splendid, magical story from the streets of Barcelona (me encanta esta ciudad). This is the third story in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series and focuses much more on Fermin Romero de Torres and his previous life, though Daniel Sempere features prominently. While I liked this much more than Angel’s Game (it explains much of what was unclear in that story), I was surprised that a writer of Zafon’s abilities would duplicate, more or l...