What readers think of Shadow of the Wind, plus links to write your own review.

The first sentence hooked me: "I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."

We are in Barcelona, 1945, and 10-year-old Daniel Sampere has just chosen a book to protect, one that will have special meaning for him. It is The Shadow of the Wind, by Julián Carax, and once Daniel reads it, he will begin a search for Carax's other work. But he will discover that someone else is also engaged in that search, and is systematically destroying every copy of Carax's books that can be found.

A tightly-woven and intricate plot, realistic and psychologically complex characters, beautiful language, romance, passion, and mystery all add up to a book that is difficult to put down.

great book keeps you wanting to read untill the end

Excellent and enthralling novel, reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

This is easily the best written and most fascinating, and fun, novel I have read in the last 25 years, and I´ve read a lot. It has everything we ask from great literature, fantastic writing, characters, plot... a work of genius, so well crafted and so cleverly conceived to thrill, move and shake your heart and soul that will bring you back the joy of reading. It did that to me. A classic for the ages. Don´t miss!

What a plot! This is a book that keeps you wondering through until the end. I can not say enough good things about this mystery. Fabulous author, I can't wait until his next book.

This was one of the best books I read this year. Even though it was a lengthy book, it was a page turner and I was very sad to see it end. I am looking forward to reading more of Zafon's books.

This writer is painfully and obviously well read. With references from Nero to Gertrude Stein He shows off quite a bit but in spite of all of that the story is well put together and completely consuming. What a pleasant surprise.

I read this book for a reading group, alongside 3 of my fellow group members and we all had trouble keeping our concentration on the story for the whole of the first half. We kept finding other trains of thought creeping in and enticing our thoughts away from the story. I must have read it twice over in my determination to stick with it. Then the second half the story took over and I roared downhill all the way, loving the twists and turns. I might add that I and my colleagues are used to reading unusual and intersting books, and I feel that in fairness my review reflects honestly on the text, and not on the fickleness of our concentration powers!