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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Start date: May 1, 2025

Finish date: May 31, 2025

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

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Feb 27, 2019 Gaijinmama rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fantasy, historical-fiction, bb-catch-up-challenge, winter-reading-challenge

I'll probably add more to this review later. This book is still making me lose sleep days after finishing it, and I need a bit more time to process.
For now: five stars, no question. I love books about books, and this one makes me want to hop on the next flight to Barcelona. ...more

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Jan 30, 2017 Julie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: modern-mystery, fin-2017

What a delicious book to read! So enjoyable on many different levels. It has an engrossing plot that flows well - I never wanted to put the book down and searched for times I could read it. All the characters are developed wonderfully, even the minor characters. There were some with traits that I didn't like or that were annoying, but the author does such a great job of creating well-rounded 3 dimensional people that I could forgive or understand the flaws that bothered me. And the writing itsel ...more

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Oct 30, 2010 Ketutar Jensen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: series

OMG! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! I was crying in the end, and that usually is a good sign ;-)

Carlos Ruiz Zafón has managed to create a wonderful story, and the different narratives give so much more depth and color and flavor to the story... In the end I liked many characters I hated in the beginning, because their choices and actions and thoughts were explained as the same happenings were explained by the different people involved in them... and...

Oh, just read it! :-D

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Aug 15, 2009 Melissa rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, mystery, global

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Mar 30, 2010 Julia rated it really liked it

Shelves: history, politics, scifi-fantasy, audio-books, mystery

Lyrically written, and a good tale full of compelling characters set in a time/place about which I know very little. Surreal in the best way possible.

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