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Book Review of The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind
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Helpful Score: 4


This book had a great premise and I absolutely loved the first few hundred pages. However, after a while it just started to drag. Too much violence, cruelty, and unhappiness permeated the last 3rd of the book. I did enjoy the book, but it isn't a keeper or a book I will read again the way I expected when I first started it.
This is apparently going to be the first in a series.
I was especially impressed with how well this book was translated from Spanish to English, oftentimes a book seems to lose something in translation, but not this one.