David is cynical, he sometimes treats people horribly, and he lives a relatively harsher life compared to Daniel. Do note that David Martin isn’t a complete kind-hearted person like the protagonist of the previous book, Daniel Sempere, who’s very easy to get attached to. The characterizations of the main character, David Martin, and the individuals he met-especially Isabella and Sempere family-along his journey were so well-done. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.” And every artist’s life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one’s limitations. “Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella.
This is a hefty book it’s almost 700 pages long, and I never felt bored reading it. This, however, doesn’t mean a drop in storytelling quality, Zafón’s prose (plus Lucia Graves’ translation) never fails to captivate me. The story has a gothic horror feels to it it is bleaker, and it’s definitely more depressing than the first book. The themes in The Angel’s Game focuses more on writing, ambition, faith, loneliness, found family, and the dark side of humanity. However, Zafón did retain sufficient elements that made the first book superb into his narrative here, and I do believe that The Angel’s Game has the alluring storytelling capability that the first book has.
It is indeed a different kind of book than its predecessor, there’s no more story within a story, no more coming-of-age, and the story itself takes place before the events that occurred in The Shadow of the Wind.
I’m honestly quite shocked by the significant drop in average ratings for The Angel’s Game, the second installment in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, on Goodreads. “Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
I can’t say about The Prisoner of Heaven because I haven’t read it yet, but The Angel’s Game, in my opinion, was definitely worth the read. More than a month has passed since I finished reading The Shadow of the Wind that enthralled me, and not gonna lie, I had an inkling of dropping the series after continuously hearing from so many people that the continuations aren’t really worth the read. It’s as good as The Shadow of the Wind in a different way. The Angel’s Game is another incredible book by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Translated Edition Published: 2009 by Weidenfield & Nicholson, Orion Books (UK) & 2009 by Doubleday (US) Series: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books (Book #2 of 4)
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