The Angel's Game
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Anakin
May 28, 2012 07:24AM
Considering my review is nowhere to be found, although Goodreads says that "Your reviews will always be public" - yes, i've logged out, sort reviews by newest, and not just once, but it's not there - I will write here my understanding of the events. I still have some questions, please help me if you know the answers (and correct me where i got it wrong):
About Sempere-The Son:
Considering the timeline of the events in this book, Sempere-The Son in here is actually the father of Daniel from The Shadow of the Wind. Isabella is Daniel's mother, who's face he can't remember at the beginning of the Shadow.
About the events themselves:
The story, to be fully understood, should start with Marlasca. He's a lawyer who dreams of writing books and Corelli offers him this opportunity. He starts neglecting his job because of the book and for this reason he fights with his wife and at the same time his son dies drowned. After that, he can't live with his wife anymore, so he moves in the Tower House. He starts visiting Roures, a medium who pretends he can speak with dead people and there he meets Irene. Irene truly falls in love with Marlasca, despite what people thought. Together, they visit The Witch of Sommorostro who tells Marlasca he needs someone to give him his soul in order for his son to live once again. Correli promised him he will give his son back if he's able to write the book and throughout the book we learn that books keep the soul of the writer so this adds up with what the witch said.
Now comes the part i don't really understand (please help!). For some reason, Marlasca frames his death in that pool (still, why? plus that people saw him dead so how could he frame this? Who's body was in the pool?). Everyone thinks it was a suicide except Salvador. Afraid that Salvador could uncover the truth behind his death, Marlasca kills Salvador and hides his body in that secret room in the Tower House. Then, he somehow manages to convince people that Salvador left the country (with a letter maybe) and takes his identity.
Some years after that David moves in the Tower House and starts writing for Corelli. He starts uncovering what happened with Marlasca and when he visits Salvador (which is actually Marlasca), Marlasca finds that David is writing a book for Corelli and he finds in this an opportunity for finishing his book and rescue his son. He starts framing David all that killings (as a proof, the killings start after David visits Salvador - except the first two, which were the work of Corelli, probably), because he wants David dead so he can take his book, take David's identity and give the book to Corelli, this way giving that soul that is needed in order to save his son.
At the end, after some years, Corelli gives Christina (as a child) back to David so he can start over with her, watch her grow, fall in love with her again and then see her die - a curse Corelli has to endure for eternity. So, the stranger in the picture with her that she can't remember where it was taken was in fact David (who took the picture back in time to the first/real Christina is another story, but i don't think there's an answer to that).
The last question i can't find an answer is why does David find that doll which looks like him in Corelli's house? I would say that maybe he is a doll... maybe that's how Corelli cured his illness. Maybe that's why he can't grow old... dolls don't grow old. Just like Corelli.
And the ultimate question... who is Corelli? I guess only the reader's imagination has the answer.
About Sempere-The Son:
Considering the timeline of the events in this book, Sempere-The Son in here is actually the father of Daniel from The Shadow of the Wind. Isabella is Daniel's mother, who's face he can't remember at the beginning of the Shadow.
About the events themselves:
The story, to be fully understood, should start with Marlasca. He's a lawyer who dreams of writing books and Corelli offers him this opportunity. He starts neglecting his job because of the book and for this reason he fights with his wife and at the same time his son dies drowned. After that, he can't live with his wife anymore, so he moves in the Tower House. He starts visiting Roures, a medium who pretends he can speak with dead people and there he meets Irene. Irene truly falls in love with Marlasca, despite what people thought. Together, they visit The Witch of Sommorostro who tells Marlasca he needs someone to give him his soul in order for his son to live once again. Correli promised him he will give his son back if he's able to write the book and throughout the book we learn that books keep the soul of the writer so this adds up with what the witch said.
Now comes the part i don't really understand (please help!). For some reason, Marlasca frames his death in that pool (still, why? plus that people saw him dead so how could he frame this? Who's body was in the pool?). Everyone thinks it was a suicide except Salvador. Afraid that Salvador could uncover the truth behind his death, Marlasca kills Salvador and hides his body in that secret room in the Tower House. Then, he somehow manages to convince people that Salvador left the country (with a letter maybe) and takes his identity.
Some years after that David moves in the Tower House and starts writing for Corelli. He starts uncovering what happened with Marlasca and when he visits Salvador (which is actually Marlasca), Marlasca finds that David is writing a book for Corelli and he finds in this an opportunity for finishing his book and rescue his son. He starts framing David all that killings (as a proof, the killings start after David visits Salvador - except the first two, which were the work of Corelli, probably), because he wants David dead so he can take his book, take David's identity and give the book to Corelli, this way giving that soul that is needed in order to save his son.
At the end, after some years, Corelli gives Christina (as a child) back to David so he can start over with her, watch her grow, fall in love with her again and then see her die - a curse Corelli has to endure for eternity. So, the stranger in the picture with her that she can't remember where it was taken was in fact David (who took the picture back in time to the first/real Christina is another story, but i don't think there's an answer to that).
The last question i can't find an answer is why does David find that doll which looks like him in Corelli's house? I would say that maybe he is a doll... maybe that's how Corelli cured his illness. Maybe that's why he can't grow old... dolls don't grow old. Just like Corelli.
And the ultimate question... who is Corelli? I guess only the reader's imagination has the answer.
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I've just finished the book, and the ideas are still echoing about in my head, so I don't think I've quite figured it out yet; however, I agree, Corelli symbolizes the devil. Not only does the text reference Lucifer, but three dogs, a reference to the hounds of hell, guard the gates of the Barcelona home in which he resides. What I do know is that if you try to read the book as realism, you will have trouble. Zafon is exploring the psyche more than the real world. To understand the book, there are a couple of ideas to keep in mind: 1) I doubt that our narrator is completely sane. In the narrative, he sells his soul to the devil to write a new religion using a Marxist approach to the traditional religious framework. What results is horrific, and since we are told that books contain the soul of both the writer and the reader, well, it seems that his soul is trapped in his own hell, which is very likely, insanity, therefore, we cannot trust his perception. 2) Zafon likes archetypal symbols, so he composes according to the meaning the symbols make as much as he does according to events in the plot. Everything means something. For example, on the night David is "cured," of his brain tumor, he dreams that he is underwater and then travels into a basement of sorts where he undergoes an operation. Going underground and underwater are both symbols of the main character traveling into the realm of death, and/or his subconscious. So, David is both travelling to hell where he undergoes a sort of perverse baptism,AND sinking deeper into the dark creepy chambers of his own soul. Additional symbols involve the women: his mother, Christina, and Isabella. These three characters represent different aspects of ancient female dieties: the maiden(or nymph), the mother, and the death crone. Like the deities they represent,their characterization is not cut and dry. For example, Christina is both the destroyer and the virgin, while Isabella is both the mother and the virgin. One example of such a deety is the White Goddess, which I have learned has multiple manifestations from reading a book called, _The White Goddess__, written, incidentally, by Robert Graves, father of Lucia Graves, translator of _The Angel's Game_. Finally, I suspect the ending, in which Corelli seems to give up, is attempting to say something about the nature of good and evil. There is a duality woven throughout the story that I cannot quite reconcile but that I suspect is somewhat existential.
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IN prisoner of heaven David Martin is in Jail, but at the end of angles game no where does he go to jail and he gets a letter from isabella telling him about how shes sick and dies, but in prisoner of heaven i thought she get poisoned from trying to free him?...so lost lol
Dear fellow readers. I need help. here's my take on the story. I feel that David Martin has multiple personalities. I'm saying this because Inspector Grandes says "the brooch you've been talking about? I've seen you wear it since the first time I met you" also this adds up because he has done all the money transactions and the order for the grave stone for himself because everything has Davids signature on it. This was based in a time an age where the signature is important for such transactions.
I think Corelli is a demon of David himself part of time that he was trying to resist. All those people who died were either murdered by David himself or all those dead people are a part of his own mind.
Also some of you were asking about Isabella's death. Well in the "Prisoner of Heaven" Fermin says that David completely lost his mind and started talking to imaginary people. Also Valls (the Jailer in Montjuic Castle) brings him a letter with the news about Isebella's death. The scenes in the beach was probably all in Davids head when he was in prison. He was probably unaware most of the time that he is in fact in prison but in his mind he was in a hut in a beach writing books again.
This is the best possible explanation that I can think of if any of you could share your thoughts about my theory I'd be more than glad.
I think Corelli is a demon of David himself part of time that he was trying to resist. All those people who died were either murdered by David himself or all those dead people are a part of his own mind.
Also some of you were asking about Isabella's death. Well in the "Prisoner of Heaven" Fermin says that David completely lost his mind and started talking to imaginary people. Also Valls (the Jailer in Montjuic Castle) brings him a letter with the news about Isebella's death. The scenes in the beach was probably all in Davids head when he was in prison. He was probably unaware most of the time that he is in fact in prison but in his mind he was in a hut in a beach writing books again.
This is the best possible explanation that I can think of if any of you could share your thoughts about my theory I'd be more than glad.
I also didn't get - did he finish the book or not? I thought he ended up burning the manuscript?! IF so - how could Corelli have gotten it and used it to start the war?
I love all the comments or questions around why certain details from David don’t make sense. I heard an interview from Zafon kind of saying that was the point. That this is a book from an unreliable author. I think having heard that before my last reread made it so much more enjoyable. It certainly feels like David has pretty serious split personalities so even he is very unaware of the reality of his life. Regular David is probably just the great person we like in the book. And his AC side is pretty dark. By the end when Vidal kills himself I was at the point where I assumed it was David.
Even why Vidal ask him if he killed Cristina he said he actually didn’t know. I think even he’s aware that he’s lost grip on reality.
The book was so incredible, but I wanted it to click for me more on the last chapter. The whole dock and boss scene didn’t really do it for me. Prob too abstract. But the first 99% was a page turner couldn’t put it down
Even why Vidal ask him if he killed Cristina he said he actually didn’t know. I think even he’s aware that he’s lost grip on reality.
The book was so incredible, but I wanted it to click for me more on the last chapter. The whole dock and boss scene didn’t really do it for me. Prob too abstract. But the first 99% was a page turner couldn’t put it down
I just finished reading the book and having read The shadow of the wind before, I have expected this story to be more realistic.
I have two theories as of how the story can be viewed:
1st: David suffers from split personality disorder, at the same time living as himself, interacting with 'Corelli' - the character produced by his own imagination as well as Corelli and the whole story is basically him interactiong with himself.
2nd: David actually being a victim of all the drama between 'big famous families of Barcelona', the police, Diego Marlasca and the devil himself - in this case the story is much more 'supernatural' than The Shadow of the wind.
To support my first theory, here are some details from the story:
1. Upbringing and buildup of David's character:
experiencing traumatic childhood, his relationship with his father, who basically couldn't deal with him and wanted him dead - or at least David has remembered him like this, additionally his father being murdered in front of him. Later on Vidal proposing to Cristina. I believe all the interactions with Corelli really began after the trauma of being abandoned by Christina and betrayed by Vidal. Earlier the Chloe fantasy happening right after him being fired from the newspaper. In this manner his visions of Corelli, Chloe etc. could have been a way of him coping with traumatic situations.
2. Moments, when everything goes dark and the story stops:
His publishers - he tells them: 'you will be dead in a week' and reflects that he does not know what made him say that. When Isabella is assaulted by two attackers on the street and David comes to rescue, we first see it as them leaving the scene. However, when David returns home he notes he has blood on his face, later on we are told by Isabella's father that the same night two attackers had been beaten up at night on the streets. Third is when he first discovers there is something behind the closet in the locked room that smells badly...in the story he sees the hole in the wall, looks in it and then, nothing really happens, we don't really know what he sees in that moment, the story just stops. Last, when he finds that Cristina has escaped her room and her ties have been CUT...in this moments I believed, it could be a product of his split personality...the one person not remembering what the other did - like kill the two publishers...even Vidal's suicide could potentially be one of his delusions in reality, David7s dark side could have been a murder.
3. Getting a second point of view:
Inspector fact-checking David's story: telling him the doctors office has not existed for a long time, David, himself ordering a gravestone, the witch he talked to being mute, David not having an account with all the franks at Banco Hispanico. Until inspector's side of the story, we do not really have any other point of view on all this events (of course, inspector could have made everything up, but I doubt he would have a strong motive, he could have arrested or kill David anyway). Another person who offers us a second point of view is Barcelo telling David that Corelli is dead and the publishing company had burned down...it makes you wonder, whether David sees things clearly.
4. David's story = Marlasca's story
David's story of descending to madness being equal to Marlasca's story (thinking he has a brain tumour/parasite inside him, having a contract with Corelli/the devil). Marlasca also had traumatic experience after which he started to suffer from this delusions. David could have easily adopt and internalise the story and suffering of Diego Marlasca.
5. Lux aeterna in the cemetery of forgotten books:
David finding out that all the books in the room in the cemetery of forgotten books are actually Lux aeterna. I think that if he had picked up any book in the cemetery, he would have seen it as the story of Lux aeterna - again internalising the delusions of Marlasca and believing, that the story of madness follows him around
6. The angel brooch: Inspector commenting on the angel brooch that David is wearing, saying it has caught his attention the FIRST time he saw him. Meaning the brooch was always worn by David and not Corelli, again the split personality thing?
There are more instances that made me believe that David suffers from some sort of mental disorder, however there are still many aspects that definitely add to the whole story and leave a lot of questions open...such as: Marlasca apparently still being alive, what happened then with the inspector who was investigating his death? Wouldn't his wife notice that he is Marlasca? Vidal's father - in the beginning relatively irrelevant character - suddenly becoming very active and relevant, buying the police to arrest David even though he didn't approve of Cristina in the first place? Sempere and sons bookshop and 'good' relevant characters, who appear never to be hurt by Corelli, police or Marlasca, despite Isabella living in the house, cleaning up the house etc.? What's up with the discovery of the dolls in the basement of Corelli's residence in Barcelona and how can David be 'cured' of the tumour and visibly recovered very well? All of the closing scene: as if David has gone completely insane, back in Barcelona, imagining Corelli has given him a new young Cristina and reenacting the moment from the photo they have seen before? Why all the characters only die after they meet David? I know it seems that Diego is killing them so they would not reveal the secrets, but they have been there for AGES, they could have told the truth or expose Marlasca way before David has turned up, why are they dying now?
I don't know what to think of the whole story...comparing it to the Shadow of the wind, which was much more realistic and all the details clicked at the end...I believe the story in the Shadow was well thought of, many stories brilliantly complementing each other...which I expected in The angel's game. I was basically waiting for that moment, when everything clicks and everything is explained. I think the story was too complex, with too many twists and turns... I still read it non-stop, but I really really wanted that click moment and it didn't really happen here
I have two theories as of how the story can be viewed:
1st: David suffers from split personality disorder, at the same time living as himself, interacting with 'Corelli' - the character produced by his own imagination as well as Corelli and the whole story is basically him interactiong with himself.
2nd: David actually being a victim of all the drama between 'big famous families of Barcelona', the police, Diego Marlasca and the devil himself - in this case the story is much more 'supernatural' than The Shadow of the wind.
To support my first theory, here are some details from the story:
1. Upbringing and buildup of David's character:
experiencing traumatic childhood, his relationship with his father, who basically couldn't deal with him and wanted him dead - or at least David has remembered him like this, additionally his father being murdered in front of him. Later on Vidal proposing to Cristina. I believe all the interactions with Corelli really began after the trauma of being abandoned by Christina and betrayed by Vidal. Earlier the Chloe fantasy happening right after him being fired from the newspaper. In this manner his visions of Corelli, Chloe etc. could have been a way of him coping with traumatic situations.
2. Moments, when everything goes dark and the story stops:
His publishers - he tells them: 'you will be dead in a week' and reflects that he does not know what made him say that. When Isabella is assaulted by two attackers on the street and David comes to rescue, we first see it as them leaving the scene. However, when David returns home he notes he has blood on his face, later on we are told by Isabella's father that the same night two attackers had been beaten up at night on the streets. Third is when he first discovers there is something behind the closet in the locked room that smells badly...in the story he sees the hole in the wall, looks in it and then, nothing really happens, we don't really know what he sees in that moment, the story just stops. Last, when he finds that Cristina has escaped her room and her ties have been CUT...in this moments I believed, it could be a product of his split personality...the one person not remembering what the other did - like kill the two publishers...even Vidal's suicide could potentially be one of his delusions in reality, David7s dark side could have been a murder.
3. Getting a second point of view:
Inspector fact-checking David's story: telling him the doctors office has not existed for a long time, David, himself ordering a gravestone, the witch he talked to being mute, David not having an account with all the franks at Banco Hispanico. Until inspector's side of the story, we do not really have any other point of view on all this events (of course, inspector could have made everything up, but I doubt he would have a strong motive, he could have arrested or kill David anyway). Another person who offers us a second point of view is Barcelo telling David that Corelli is dead and the publishing company had burned down...it makes you wonder, whether David sees things clearly.
4. David's story = Marlasca's story
David's story of descending to madness being equal to Marlasca's story (thinking he has a brain tumour/parasite inside him, having a contract with Corelli/the devil). Marlasca also had traumatic experience after which he started to suffer from this delusions. David could have easily adopt and internalise the story and suffering of Diego Marlasca.
5. Lux aeterna in the cemetery of forgotten books:
David finding out that all the books in the room in the cemetery of forgotten books are actually Lux aeterna. I think that if he had picked up any book in the cemetery, he would have seen it as the story of Lux aeterna - again internalising the delusions of Marlasca and believing, that the story of madness follows him around
6. The angel brooch: Inspector commenting on the angel brooch that David is wearing, saying it has caught his attention the FIRST time he saw him. Meaning the brooch was always worn by David and not Corelli, again the split personality thing?
There are more instances that made me believe that David suffers from some sort of mental disorder, however there are still many aspects that definitely add to the whole story and leave a lot of questions open...such as: Marlasca apparently still being alive, what happened then with the inspector who was investigating his death? Wouldn't his wife notice that he is Marlasca? Vidal's father - in the beginning relatively irrelevant character - suddenly becoming very active and relevant, buying the police to arrest David even though he didn't approve of Cristina in the first place? Sempere and sons bookshop and 'good' relevant characters, who appear never to be hurt by Corelli, police or Marlasca, despite Isabella living in the house, cleaning up the house etc.? What's up with the discovery of the dolls in the basement of Corelli's residence in Barcelona and how can David be 'cured' of the tumour and visibly recovered very well? All of the closing scene: as if David has gone completely insane, back in Barcelona, imagining Corelli has given him a new young Cristina and reenacting the moment from the photo they have seen before? Why all the characters only die after they meet David? I know it seems that Diego is killing them so they would not reveal the secrets, but they have been there for AGES, they could have told the truth or expose Marlasca way before David has turned up, why are they dying now?
I don't know what to think of the whole story...comparing it to the Shadow of the wind, which was much more realistic and all the details clicked at the end...I believe the story in the Shadow was well thought of, many stories brilliantly complementing each other...which I expected in The angel's game. I was basically waiting for that moment, when everything clicks and everything is explained. I think the story was too complex, with too many twists and turns... I still read it non-stop, but I really really wanted that click moment and it didn't really happen here
I've read books 4, 1 and 2 and I didn't enjoy angel's game as much as the other. But maybe once I've read and connected all the storylines, it'll make sense. Everything is quite a muddle in my head but according to me, in angel's game:
1. Martin has some kind of delusion, in which he is Corelli and is sort of 'playing against himself'
2. Like someone said above, the years on the beach were actually Martin in prison.
1. Martin has some kind of delusion, in which he is Corelli and is sort of 'playing against himself'
2. Like someone said above, the years on the beach were actually Martin in prison.
Am I crazy or does the chronology or situation about the Semperes does not match between The Shadow Of The Wind and the prequel The Angel's Game? In one Daniel marries by 1956. Which is when he is already about 22 or 23. His father attends the wedding. But in the Angel's Game, Daniel's father dies and Daniel is proposing to Isabella and asking her to have babies and live together in the flat above the book shop. Not jealous or anything. But, HE BELONGS TO BEA!. Anyway, contradictions between books. Wouldnt this make it different versions of the cementery of forgoten books in some aspects. Instead of prequels and sequels.
That's really funny we don't get most of it, the original poster though helped me a lot with the first complicated story of the lawyer who faked his death God's know why.
I read that book four will be the last, it's 900+ pages in its original language so I guess huge explanations will be there
I read that book four will be the last, it's 900+ pages in its original language so I guess huge explanations will be there
Well I just read The Angel's Game and I'm trying to digest it; Clearly Andrea Corelli is the devil; who else never ages, and brokers deals to save peoples lives in return for the their soul (a book)... of course there so many books the devil has accumulated which is shown when David finds all the entitled Lux books within the Cemetery of Books. The rest of the murders and what not seem to be orchestrated by Malasca (under the guise of salvador)... what's his motive? Well he wants David's finished book, a sacrifice soul (book) to save his own - which he learned from the sorceress, he covers his tracks from David while propelling him forward. At the end when Cristina is 9 I take this to mean that she has also made a deal with the Devil, and will now join David, albeit much younger. A few things bother me... I guess Jaco holds no significance? and at the end when Malasca says to David "I admit that I was never able to solve the puzzle. I fell by the wayside. I'm glad to see the boss found a more talented successor."... what did he solve? Also what was behind the wall in his tower apartment, could it have been Malasca's son?
jaco is in marlascas grave and the witch didnt promise to bring back his son,it was the angel who did in exchange for writing him the book.the witch only gave marlasca the idea on how to avoid the curse tht he felt was bestowed upon him by the angel once he made the deal with him (talk about making a deal with the devil). the idea of the witch was tht an innocent soul were to be sacrificed (salvador tht is later found by david in the tower house)and tht way the soul of the sacrificed man would hide the damned soul of marlasca and he would be able to avoid his fate.marlasca later killed the witch (who obviously didnt die because shes the one who seemed to have spoken to david and showed him her neck with the stab wound)to cover his tracks and disapear forever).
is david really sane???if andreas corelli is really dead then how can david kill him once more and again see in epilouge???????
It's such a confusion. In "The Angel's Game" David doesen't go in jail until 1944 while in "The Prisoner of Heaven" he is already in jail in 1939. This I found quite weird. I can't remember who but one of the characters told David he had been holding the angel broche in his jacket ever since he had met him. Plus when he thought Christina had stolen the book, he finds the broche, so this means he had tried to steal the book? Maybe he is a little bit "crazy" and Corelli is no one but david himself. I loved the triology by the way, and I really hope we have another book because the ending of "The Prisoner of Heaven" definately meant the story is not over. In "The shadow of the wind" Julián Carax's mother teaches piano lessons to a certain Anna Valls. I think she might be connected to Mauricio Valls. Zafón is just the best.
the books are not meant to be in chronological order, the author said they can be read in any order, it's just pretty much three different stories with the same characters.
Anakin wrote: "For some reason, Marlasca frames his death in that pool (still, why? plus that people saw him dead so how could he frame this? Who's body was in the pool?). "
I think Irene mentioned that it was Jaco's body who was burned and placed in the pool. As for the other people, it may be that Jaco's body was burned beyond recognition/made up to look like Marlasca.
As for the reason... I think Marlasca couldn't finish his own version of the book that Corelli wanted, and so he faked his death to escape Corelli's attention. When his replacement came along, he wanted to steal David's work as his own, perhaps to trade with Corelli for his son again/to get Corelli off his back since he repeatedly mentioned that 'there was something inside him'.
Idk, gosh, what a frustrating book.
I think Irene mentioned that it was Jaco's body who was burned and placed in the pool. As for the other people, it may be that Jaco's body was burned beyond recognition/made up to look like Marlasca.
As for the reason... I think Marlasca couldn't finish his own version of the book that Corelli wanted, and so he faked his death to escape Corelli's attention. When his replacement came along, he wanted to steal David's work as his own, perhaps to trade with Corelli for his son again/to get Corelli off his back since he repeatedly mentioned that 'there was something inside him'.
Idk, gosh, what a frustrating book.
Is David a time traveler? If not, how can he at the same time be approximately the same age as Isabella and her son Daniel?
I don't understand loads of things, but I must admit
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I would have liked it to have a definite ending and for the author to have tied up the many loose ends, but hey, I guess it was his decision to leave it all mysterious. .
Firstly, why doesn't Davids mum love him. Why doesn't whenever tell her that he's his son, was that lady in the store even his mum? Or did his dad lie to him?
Also what sort of business was his dad into? For a moment I thought his dad might even have been Jaco.
Secondly, who and what is Corelli?! Is he death? The devil? An angel? And what does he want to do with a new religion? And most importantly does he ever get to implement it?
How can he give back Christina to him as a kid?
Why was David wearing the angel broche without him ever knowing? Can correli just be a dark phycological side of David? Like in fight club. Lol. But then how would he give himself a little Christina.... Too confusing.
Who was the dead body they thought was MarlAsqa? Why didn't his wife ever know he was still alive?
And so on and so forth
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I would have liked it to have a definite ending and for the author to have tied up the many loose ends, but hey, I guess it was his decision to leave it all mysterious. .
Firstly, why doesn't Davids mum love him. Why doesn't whenever tell her that he's his son, was that lady in the store even his mum? Or did his dad lie to him?
Also what sort of business was his dad into? For a moment I thought his dad might even have been Jaco.
Secondly, who and what is Corelli?! Is he death? The devil? An angel? And what does he want to do with a new religion? And most importantly does he ever get to implement it?
How can he give back Christina to him as a kid?
Why was David wearing the angel broche without him ever knowing? Can correli just be a dark phycological side of David? Like in fight club. Lol. But then how would he give himself a little Christina.... Too confusing.
Who was the dead body they thought was MarlAsqa? Why didn't his wife ever know he was still alive?
And so on and so forth
Wow! I feel like I read an entirely different book than you. But then again I didn't like this book at all. Sorry to be of no help in clearing up any questions for you.
I did not like this one nearly as much as "Shadow of the Wind". I was confused about too much. I am hoping the next one I read will be more like "Shadow".
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