The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

After loving "The Shadow of the Wind" I was so disappointed in this prequil. The reviews said that the 'occult' was a bigger part and oh brother was it ....... not to my liking at all. This guy can write one paragraph and convey such feeling, I just did not need all that, thus my low rating, might be more your cup of tea, but not mine. Anyway David falls in love with a woman that marries his best friend and benefactor, Cristina. He signs up with the devil to write a 'religion' and goes crazy in the process, Vidal kills himself, David kills several policemen, Cristina ended up in an asylum and dies out on a lake as David is trying to reach her, she was about to get better and take David away from the devil. During the story the daughter of the grocer comes to live with David, her name is Isabella, and is just a delight and also in love with him, but Davis can never get over Cristina. Isabella goes on to marry Daniels dad the owner of the bookshop. David escapes all the mayhem, but is forever young, with all of his heart ache. The bad guy shows back up at the end with Cristina as a child and give her to David, so that he can watch her grow old and die ......... REALLY, REALLY ...... booo hisss on this ending .... it will be a long shot for me to pick up the third one.

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