Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados El Juego del Ángel / The Angel's Game, Book 2, (Paperback)

from dchaikin

Like Shadow of the Wind this was a lot of fun, and won me over early with that wonderful atmosphere Ruiz Zafón creates of a Gothem-like 1930's-era Barcelona; that sense of dying wealth and elegance hovering over poverty; all those mysterious dreamlike women who drift through his stories; and, of ...

from TrishNYC

This has to be one of the most frustrating books that I have ever read. The first 100 pages made me want to pull out all my hair because though interesting in general, it was long winded and could have been 50 pages shorter. In 1920s Barcelona, David Martin is a young man who has been orphaned at...

from tammydotts

In The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafón envelops the reader in a world full of mysterious characters and complicated plot twists. Zafón's gift of creating fully realized characters and settings overcome the at-times confusing plot. The reader is content to let 1920s Barcelona wash over him as he a...

from mckait

This is an all enveloping love story that......no, maybe not. This is a paranormal mystery that will draw you in from the...no, maybe not that either. This is an extraordinary piece of literary fiction, touched by murder, deception and deep friendship. I'm sorry, that isn't quite right either. No...

from SqueakyChu

If your thing is books and authors, you'll be quietly seduced into reading this engrossing gothic mystery based in Barcelona, Spain. I'd never read the earlier and highly praised book, The Shadow of the Wind, by its internationally acclaimed author so I had no expectations of what his newer book ...