Play Book Tag discussion

Crime fiction, eerie, spooky and Spain. Cross posted to general feed, PBT Horizons, and PBT Fall Flurries.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, who is known as the spectacular author of the Shadow of the Wind Series, and Marina, is my author of the year. The Prince of Mist is one of four other titles he has penned, and it appears that like Marina, they may all in fact be Young Adult books. This one, that was just over 200 pages, happens to fit the October bill for numerous challenges all at once, not to mention my personal author of the year challenge.

It was dark, fantasy, and young adult - three genres that are each iffy for me all on their own. I don't like to be scared out of my wits, never have. This one is eerie, and haunting. Its hard to say therefore that I liked it. But I didn't not like it. Zafon has a way with words, and I was certainly drawn into his story. It was engaging. And yet so far, my least favorite of his works. Yet there was something about it.... mist swirls, leaving one chilled and spooked.

Glad you enjoyed this. I think I am done with Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I am not a fan of his eeriness and almost supernatural. I love his stories and the Shadow of the Wind series is a wonderful story and I get excited remembering how each work fit like a puzzle with the other. Unless there is more to Shadow of the Wind later, I am finished with Zafon.

I hear you. You are right that it’s got the kind of spooky paranormal kind of thing going on that would not be your cup of tea. I would say that one of the reasons you might have really found it more palatable in the shadow series, was because of the way books and writing were so intricately involved and connected.

Quadruple whammy with tags- that might be some sort of record!!

I'm hoping to get to The Shadow of the Wind this month.

Hey, it wasn’t my trim book! But my trim book happens to be crime fiction....