La sombra del viento

"The first time I started this book I got bored with the few first chapters and I abandoned it thinking that I wasn't going to pick it up ever again. A few months ago I decided to give it another chance since I didn't have anything else to read, and I can't explain how happy I am of doing it. This book, though sometimes it's bored me and has been a bit tedious with that many descriptions and the way it stops to talk about EVERY SINGLE DETAIL, it's been one of the best books I've read in the last years. It is not a book that has magic or fantasy (like I usually like), it is not a surrealist book. It's a book that talks about life and how all of us have a story to tell the world. The Shadow of the Wind talks about friendship, love, hate... it talks about people that are meant to meet each other and stories that need to be told, even decades later.<br/>From this book, I've learnt a lot and it leaves me with the feeling that I'd have to reread it a thousand times to learn everything it has to teach me. I've always thought that Carlos Ruiz Zafón was overrated and that his books were slow and boring, but now I can say that it's worth it to go through all those pages of infinite descriptions and I'm looking forward to reading more books by this author and learn as much as I have with this one."