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I received an advanced readers copy of this through the GoodReads First Reads program, and I should be clear that getting a copy early is not making me put a positive spin on this review.
I am new to Zafon, but I would really like to read The Shadow of the Wind now. It is hard for me to place The Angel's Game into a clear genre. It feels sometimes like a gothic novel, but I don't usually like those (usually because they are atmospheric and slow-paced, but this is fast-paced and endlessly twistin ...more
I am new to Zafon, but I would really like to read The Shadow of the Wind now. It is hard for me to place The Angel's Game into a clear genre. It feels sometimes like a gothic novel, but I don't usually like those (usually because they are atmospheric and slow-paced, but this is fast-paced and endlessly twistin ...more
Expert wordcraft carried me through another of Zafon's tales of the dark side of historical Barcelona. The biggest negative, if you want to look at it that way, is that The Angel's Game is made up almost entirely of concepts already explored in his prior novel, The Shadow of the Wind, although the main theme is this time about the relationship between an author and his work rather than the reader and the work. The cast of characters is also not as vibrant in this novel, though that can be attrib
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Decent read........if I picked it up at another point in my life, maybe I would rate it higher. Interesting and creepy plot - just not what I was looking for now, I guess
At points this book just got too much even for me, and I like all things excessive and baroque. There are just too much of everything here: too many imposing, gothic mansions, too many tragic/fatal women, too much description of everything from sceneries to weather to the aformentioned mansions. And too many betrayals and corpses.
That said, it's not a bad book. I don't share Zafón's mysticism when it comes to books and literature, but he certainly explores his themes beautifully. Smoke and mirro ...more
That said, it's not a bad book. I don't share Zafón's mysticism when it comes to books and literature, but he certainly explores his themes beautifully. Smoke and mirro ...more
carnivalesque, grotesque, picaresque in a 'pulp fiction'-ish note. To lengthy and gordenouement, yet a nightmare-to-remember reading!
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sorry but I have decided this author is just creepy and the style he uses in this novel, even the story is practically the same as in his first novel. Unimpressed.
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Definitely not as good as The Shadow of the Wind. It had some of the same magic air but the story was in no way as captivating, the characters not as memorable and the entire feeling was that the author struggled a little too hard to reach the same heights as with The Shadow of the Wind and failed.
Jun 10, 2010
Booktart
marked it as to-read
Dec 24, 2011
Doina
marked it as to-read
Jul 24, 2012
Sara
marked it as to-read
