I started on this Spanish bestseller on a whim at the end of July and didn't finish it until last night. 'The Shadow of the Wind' is a bestselling melodrama in the vein of Dumas' 'Count of Monte Cristo'. What melodrama! Passion, unrequited love, revenge, lost love, secrets, vanishing books, haunted mansions, lost fortunes and more! It's quite a tale. A love story, a mystery.
It took quite a bit before the story really started. Before that it meandered all over with some rather inconsequential subplots.
All in all, not a bad read for a bestseller.
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