This was the first book I read this year. A lady I dated for a while thought it was the best book she'd ever read. We were n't together long, but that's not because of her taste in fiction.
It is undoubtedly a good book. The novel tells about the experiences of a young boy named Daniel living in Barcelona, who one day innocently comes across a book called 'The Shadow of the Wind'. After enjoying the book, he is puzzled as to why nobody, even those knowlegable in literature, seem to know anything about the novel's mysterious author - Julian Carax. It is his curiosity to discover more about the life of Julian that sets him on the path to a thrilling but equally dangerous adventure.
The characters are good and the story is good. The scenes are well described and the Barcelona setting was interesting too. For me the highlight was the character of Fermin Romero de Torres, who is hilarious. It was a page tuner, but I could put it down :-)
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