Probably my least favorite element of this book was the central romance. “The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him the person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”
I was dying to know how Martín’s story would tie into Daniel Sempere’s tale, and finally gaining that information was incredibly satisfying. While I truly loved the atmosphere of the book, and have rarely come across such lush descriptions of setting, the mystery was what truly kept me reading. Where The Shadow of the Wind was a historical fiction literary mystery, The Angel’s Game is, as stated above, a gothic horror, though there is plenty of mystery and romance and even magical realism in its pages. The Angel’s Game was radically different in tone than its predecessor, The Shadow of the Wind, but that made the Martín’s search for answers even more compelling. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. “Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. I loved the balance Zafón struck between reality and the supernatural it definitely kept me on my toes. That question wasn’t truly answered, even in the final pages, though its answer was alluded to. The atmosphere of this novel was so creepy that I often couldn’t tell if there was a supernatural element to it or if the eeriness was due exclusively to the lush, dark setting. At its core, Martín’s story is one of intriguing mystery and gothic horror. But when his writing career takes an unexpected trajectory, he finds himself making a deal with the devil and mirroring the tragic history of another. Thanks to his mentor, Pedro Vidal, Martín is given his chance. In this book we meet David Martín, an orphan who yearns to be a writer. “Poetry is written with tears, novels with blood, and history with invisible ink.” I’ve also been reliably informed by TS and Petrik that all of the questions I found left frustratingly open at the end of this book will indeed be answered later in the series, which does nothing but add to my excitement. And I truly believe that The Angel’s Game just scratched the surface I can feel in my bones that there’s far more to come. I had no idea that it was a preamble, setting up for an even bigger story. The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (translated by Lucia Graves)įor close to a decade I’ve thought that The Shadow of the Wind was one of the most brilliant novels I had ever read.
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