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My fucking heart right now. I don't even know if I'd recommend this to someone in fear that I would destroy all of their emotions.Edit March 2016: Ironically, I gave away my own copy to my love. I'm not sure if that's romantic or sadistic.
Shorter but definitely darker than The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game. I wish someone made an animation based on the book, it has tons of potential. Or maybe a film, since most of the places described are real, but I'd rather see animated creepy creatures than horror-like ones. Anyway, a fan of the novel made this video of the places in Barcelona mentioned in the book. I totally love the song and have no idea who sings it. I might just google a bit. Apparently it's Sia's My Love.
In the late 1970s Barcelona was a mirage of avenues and winding alleys where one could easily travel thirty or forty years into the past by just stepping into the foyer of a grand old building or walking into a cafe. Time and memory, history and fiction merged in the enchanted city like watercolours in the rain. It was there, in the lingering echo of the streets that no longer exist, that cathedrals and age-old palaces created the tapestry into which this story would be woven. Once more, Carlos
(Review originally published on my blog, October 2013) Marina is the last of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's existing books to be translated into English, following the first three books of the Barcelona quartet (for adult readers), and the Niebla trilogy (for teenagers). Published in Spanish in 1999 - two years before the worldwide bestseller The Shadow of the Wind - it is the final young adult novel written by the author, and its transitional nature is evident in the style. It reads as a lot more 'grown-u...
This is the second book by Zafon that I've read (the first one being The Prince of Mist), and this time around it hit my taste a bit better. There is this magic happening in the way the author writes Barcelona, which I loved very much. Now I'm just longing for more books with European settings. Anyways, the ending is what made this book for me. While the twist wasn't so unexpected, it did still hit me very hard and I have a feeling that it will stick with me for a while. Marina is a gothic story...
15-year-old Óscar disappears in May 1980 from his boarding school in Barcelona. During seven days and seven nights, no one knows where he is... Marina is the fourth book I have read by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (not counting The Rose of Fire since it’s a short story) and I think it’s probably the best I have read of him. This book has nothing to do with The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. But I don’t mind that, it's refreshing to read something different. The story takes place in Barcelona just like...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "Marina" has something for everyone. It's part gothic horror, part mystery, part historical fiction, part love story. It will make you shudder and make you cry (or at least, it did me!) The atmosphere is brilliantly maintained throughout, and the descriptions are often breathtaking. I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Daniel Weyman, and would recommend that format as I thought he did a great job.
4,5 * 15 year old me is balling her eyes out
What a fantastic audiobook, the narration was wonderful. The story was gothic suspense horror, not too scary, just right. I look forward to reading more form this author.
Such a beautifully tragic story.This book was so well written-- I don't know if it was pure CRZ's works or the magic of translation, but I enjoyed the rich and descriptive prose very much.
For a book that has been described as the best Zafon since The Shadow of the Wind, there are simply no words to describe what a consummate disappointment the experience of reading Marina was. It was a book with so much potential that simply went nowhere. It was full of two-dimensional characters and was utterly derivative of much greater works. It was wholly unoriginal and, therefore, such a disappointment to read.I am always wary with translated books, as they seem to lose a lot in the act of t...
One of those books I always ❤ love returning to:)---4.5 actually, :) My favorite of these sets of books.. tied with 'watcher in the shadows'..Oscar and Marina are two of my favorite MCs of his.*minor spoilers abound*---A bit darker than the previous installments with some genuinely disturbing/horrifying moments, 'Marina' is an enchanting tale. Wonderfully tragic, suspenseful... bound with some romance as well.Its always bittersweet for me in a way to finish a Carlos Ruiz Zafon tale... I love goi...
QUOTES:"Marina és un dels meus favorits"..."Marina es possiblement la més indefinible i difícil de categoritzar de las novel-les que he escrit".Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Barcelona, Juny del 2008"~~~~"Marina is one of my favorites;..it's possibly the most undefinable and hardest to categorize of the novels I have written"Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Barcelona, June of 2008~~Once upon a time, in the 1970's, in Barcelona, a fifteen year old boy "disappeared" for seven days and nights. Oscar Drai was a pupil in
