Litsy

The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon

All-time favorite

Thanks, @ChaoticMissAdventures

“20 Day Cover Challenge - As we start a new year and think about what we want in a book.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” 3/20

#20covers

ChaoticMissAdventures Same. I absolutely love this one. 3w

SilversReviews @ChaoticMissAdventures 😊 I saw that on your original post - it is so good. I actually went to Barcelona, and we found all the places in the book. 😊 Thanks for this fun idea for 20 days of covers. Happy New Year of Reading!! 3w

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon

20 Day Cover Challenge - As we start a new year and think about what we want in a book.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

1/20
Join if you would like!

#20Covers

SilversReviews A favorite. 3w

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Robotswithpersonality

The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon

so-so

Wh- ummm, okay, I acknowledge that if I read this as a teenager I would have been devastated and thrilled and singing it's praises. As a cranky adult however ... I guess I'm honestly hesitant to recommend it to teenagers given some of the content, even if generally, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? salacious tragic love stories followed by more fortunate endings for a younger generation definitely appeal to bundles of hormones (apologies for the reductive description of an age group).
Yes, the writing is beautiful, and transports you to a certain span of time and place in history (political upheaval and corruption, lot of bullies and tyrants), 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? and suggests a grand mystery which as it turns out has little to do with books and a whole lot more to do with fucked up relationships.
For the most part it's about a lovely group of people getting yanked from pillar to post emotionally and physically for the sake of its impact on the reader. 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? The artful descriptions and cathartic, then kindly denouement does not quite make up for the extensive misery on the page, in my opinion.
There is a certain weight given to telling the origins of a young man, paralleling fathers (too many of which are abusive) and sons or daughters, looking back and back to the past, lost loved ones, 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/6 I just wish Ruiz Zafon had not felt the need to go quite so melodramatic with the reveals, quite so dark with the bad things that happened.
If you like historical dramas with a strong mystery component, and don't mind it getting gritty, have at thee.
And no, no I will not be continuing in the series.
(edited) 1mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 ⚠️Spousal abuse, child abuse, physical, verbal and sexual abuse, SA, homophobia, antisemitism, ableism, sexism, torture, incest, stillbirth, death in childbirth 1mo

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IuliaC

Shortcut to Paradise | Teresa Solana

pick

This is a nicely paced crime novel paved with a lot of humor; my first read by this author. A famous writer of romance novels is murdered the night she is awarded a tremendous prize in Barcelona. The main suspect, also a finalist, has a strong alibi as the night of the crime he has been robbed by an unusual thief. A team of two fake detectives are hired to find the thief and discover who the real killer is.

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