Several years ago when The Shadow of the Wind was first published I said it was the best book I had read that year. Well, Carlos Ruiz Zafon has done it again. So far, The Angel’s Game—a prequel to The Shadow of the Wind—is the best book I have read this year. Undeniably!
Its protagonist is David Martin, a young man with a troubled past, who writes sensationalist novels—quite successfully—under a pseudonym. He makes enough from this endeavor to move from a dingy apartment into a home. He finds, however, that his new home is full of shadows and a past—-so much mystery hidden in closets and attic rooms.
He also receives an offer he cannot refuse from a French editor, Andreas Corelli, to write a book like none other—a book that will change hearts and minds. As he proceeds, however, he is riddled with doubt, then fear. So begins a beautifully written story of intrigue, impossible love, and passion, all woven into the fabric of a well-told story.
-Yvonne
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