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Loading... The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel (original 2012; edition 2012)by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Work detailsThe Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (2012)
Read this book, and the other two books about the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. These books are on my very short all- purpose Reader's Advisory list. They are books that I recommend when someone just wants me to suggest "a good book." Believe me when I say that Ruiz Zafon produces crowd-pleasers of the highest order. (  ) alsatia | May 11, 2013 |  Read this book, and the other two books about the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. These books are on my very short all- purpose Reader's Advisory list. They are books that I recommend when someone just wants me to suggest "a good book." Believe me when I say that Ruiz Zafon produces crowd-pleasers of the highest order. ( ) alsatia | May 11, 2013 | Another wonderful novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It was interesting to learn more about Fermin this time around, deep in a turbulent period of Spanish history. I was especially surprised at how the two previous books in the cycle, The Angel's Game and The Shadow of the Wind, tie into this novel (or rather how this novel ties those two novels together) so I'm curious to see how the final novel brings all of the threads together. You could read my full review of the novel on my blog (contains some spoilers): http://www.rulethewaves.net/blog/?p=5328 ( ) caffeinatedlife | Apr 26, 2013 | The Prisoner of Heaven is the third book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Carlos Ruiz Zafon hooked me with The Shadow of the Wind (Book 1), left me desiring a little more with The Angel’s Game (Book 2), but tied it all together fabulously with The Prisoner of Heaven (Book 3). The author says that the books can be read in any order, and when you change the order, you change the way you experience the story. This seems to be true, however, I loved reading the books in the order they came out, where The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game were somewhat related, but I wasn’t sure how until The Prisoner of Heaven came along and basically slapped me in the face with its awesomeness. The Prisoner of Heaven may have been my favorite of the three books. I could not put it down, reading all 300 pages in less than a day. Daniel Sempere is happily married and running the family bookstore with his father and best friend Fermín Romero de Torres. Fermín will soon be married, but something is in the way. When Fermín opens up to Daniel about what really has occurred in his past, secrets are revealed, questions are answered, and more questions arise. The Prisoner of Heaven was a phenomenal read that sucked me in and kept me turning the pages without wanting to put the book down. Carlos Ruiz Zafon did a great job tying up loose ends while still leaving the book open at the end for another in the series (which I would read in a heartbeat if you are writing it!). And of course, Daniel visits the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, which is one of my favorite fictional places in the entire world. I highly recommend that you read all three books in this series, but I have to say, I think this book was the best of all three so far! Who’s up for a trip to Barcelona??? I received this book from TLC Book Tours in exchange for a fair and honest review. What do you think about reading a series out of order? Thanks for reading, Rebecca @ Love at First Book ( ) LoveAtFirstBook | Apr 11, 2013 | Fermín Romero de Torres is finally getting married. He's got one problem though--he's living under an assumed name. He has absolutely no proof that he legally exists. How is he supposed to get married without all the paperwork to prove that he is whom he says he is? As he explains this to Daniel Sempere, his history is finally explained in more detail, as well as his tie to David Martín, hero of The Angel's Game. Eh. It was better than The Angel's Game but still a long way from The Shadow of the Wind. I love Fermín, so I enjoyed delving into his story, painful as that was. But the plot felt like filler between books. It feels like there has to be a fourth book in this loose series and The Prisoner of Heaven is just a placeholder. There were some revelations that clarified a few points and set up some definite conflict for future books, but there wasn't enough going on to justify an entire book. At least it was short. I also missed Ruiz Zafón's gorgeous writing. It didn't even feel like the same author/translator team, although it was. It was just a story, pure and simple. I didn't feel any desire to mark any passages at all. I don't know who fell down on the job here, but it just wasn't up to the standard I've set for this pair. I'll give The Cemetery of Forgotten Books one more try, but I'm starting to wonder if The Shadow of the Wind was just a fluke. I sincerely hope not. (  ) JG_IntrovertedReader | Apr 3, 2013 |
 Like his countryman Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Zafón combines sincere engagement with genre tradition, with clever touches of the literary postmodern. (The novel's epigraph is by a fictional writer who featured in The Shadow of the Wind.) This is explicitly, and joyously, a book about books, about what can be learned from them (say, how to follow someone in the street), and what is lost when they are lost. Much of the novel's appeal is that of time-travelling tourism, strongly flavoured with literary nostalgia – for a time when a bookshop could be a city's cultural nerve-centre, when a paper-based bureaucracy could be outwitted, when bohemian scribblers could afford to eat world-class crème caramels, and even when money could be "cursed". But beneath the sugared surface there is also political anger. Carlos Ruiz Zafón's wonderfully chock-a-block novel THE SHADOW OF THE WIND starts with the search for a mysterious author in Barcelona in the aftermath of the Civil War and then packs in as many plots and characters as it does genres - Gothic melodrama, coming-of-age story, historical thriller and more. It is a deeply satisfying, rich, full read. THE SHADOW OF THE WIND will keep you up for nights - and it'll be time well spent. Absolutely marvellous. Set in post-war Barcelona, Zafón's tightly plotted thriller is sharp, sexy, gothic (perhaps even a little ghoulish), powerfully atmospheric, often funny and utterly unputdownable THE SHADOW OF THE WIND is more than a book about a book - it's an inspired homage to the book, a celebration of writing, and an exhortation to read. If you love AS Byatt's 'Possession', Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'... Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'... or Paul Auster's 'New York Trilogy'... then you will love THE SHADOW OF THE WIND... Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up 'The Shadow of the Wind. Is a (non-series) sequel to
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