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Third installment of this amazing series. I struggled a bit with Angel's Game, but this one is much less complex and easier for me to understand and read.
”I liked savouring every turn of phrase and dissecting the architecture of every sentence.”It was comfortably exciting to melt back into Zafon's foggy post-war Barcelona, and back into the stacks at the Sempre and Son Bookstore.Prisoner is the third book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, and I ate up its yummy wordiness with as much glee as I did Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game.Prisoner picks up chronologically where Shadow left off and, on the surface, it is very much Fermin's
[3.5 stars]My thoughts about this book haven't changed at all upon re-reading it. It's definitely enjoyable if you have read both The Angel's Game and The Shadow of the Wind, and it sets up the story for the 4th book in the series, The Labyrinth of the Spirits. But as a standalone novel it doesn't really work. The plot is thin and it's quite a short book without much substance. I love the characters this world, but this feels like it could have been a novella or a few separate short stories. Sti...
Translated from Spanish this is the third book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. I really enjoyed book one but found book two disappointing so I crept into this book, bracing myself for the worst. I'm happy to say book three pulled it out of the bag, we are back on track. My biggest issue with book two was that it had no relevance to the first book but book three has done a pretty good job of tying both books together and it now feels more like a series rather than companion novels. Thi...
Cemetery of Forgotten Books 3: I really enjoyed this tale of a bookseller (from a line of booksellers) and his best friend/quasi-mentor Fermín, Fermín who is looking to get married to his love, but needs to face his past and build the foundations for his future, before he can. ...all of this in Franco's Spain, where someone is always watching?It's Barcelona 1957, and I'm pulled back into the wonderfully atmospheric world of the Semperes, their bookshop, their friend and ally Fermín Romero de Tor...
The Prisoner of Heaven is the third book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. The story continues with some of the familiar characters. This one is basically about Fermin. We learn of Fermin’s past. It is a compelling tale.I loved how “The Count of Monte Christo”makes an appearance.It is 1957 Barcelona, Daniel and Bea have a beautiful baby boy named Julian.Fermin is about to get married. A stranger walks into the bookshop, looking for Fermin. Fermin’s mysterious past is revealed. I loved F...
“Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.” I didn’t expect this book to have such a dark turn. And that says a lot after melancholic Shadow of the Wind and depressive Angel’s Game. The author took the best out of the previous two books and made a true masterpiece. While my favorite Daniel isn’t the star of the book, Fermin was more than a competent protagonist. Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea are content with their marriage and their b
I loved this trilogy , (tetralogy, since I have now found out there is a final book that just came out , only in Spanish for not , lucky for me I read Spanish too :) ) but I digress, this third book didn't feel whole for me , it felt like there were parts missing , like somebody had a 600 page book, and then edited 350 pages out of it thinking that it made sense , while all the core elements that have made me love this series are there (the cemetery of forgotten books, the gothic mystery, recurr...
I finish this book a bit confused. First of all, the discrepancies between this and The Angel's Game, specifically concerning the events and time frame of Isabella's death, left me scratching my head. Did CRZ do that specifically in order to confound the reader and then rescue his curiosity in the last book? I hope it is something like that, because there are only 2 other alternatives that are equally distasteful to me. The first is that I actually made the mistake in ordering all the events tha...
4.5/5 starsBoth Daniel Sempere and David Martin already have their respective background told, now it’s time for Fermin Romero de Torres’s past to be revealed. “One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.” The Prisoner of Heaven is the third—and penultimate—installment in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. The story takes place in Barcelona 1957, and it mainly revolves around connecting the plot-threads prepared in The Shadow of the Wind and The Ange...
EndangermentPrisoner of Heaven is the third enchanting story from Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s, Cemetery of Forgotten Books trilogy, and it continues with the same edgy atmosphere as the previous two books. There is always a sense of darkness and secrets in these stories. Zafon is a master of keeping the flow of suspicion and intrigue alive throughout a book.Characters from the other books return, but this book mainly focuses on Fermín, who works with Daniel in the bookshop. The story begins when an unsa...
The book to me was really like Ruiz Zafon decided that he had all these notes and back story on Fermin Romero de Torres and how could you turn that into a novel. Well you link some of the previous characters into the story and produce a book that leaves you as the reader disappointed. This book, while explaining away some back story did nothing for the trilogy except open up the possibility of another book. I did not find myself engaged with the characters nor all that intrigued by the mysteriou...
