The Dragon: Hendaya to Leandro. In classic fashion, Hendaya serves as the more aggressive, physically threatening muscle, while Leandro puts on the front of a calm, trustworthy, avuncular figure. Zafón, en su nuevo laberinto barcelonés". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2016-11-13 . Retrieved 2023-06-26. During their research journey, we will get acquainted with the author of the Gothic fantasy series, which is Victor Matiax; we will wander between the secrets and mysteries of Barcelona, ​​the dark Gothic that has become a curse of blood; Admiro mucho que cada tomo de El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados sea su propia historia al igual que parte de una más grande. Y ese es el primer acierto que tengo que darle a El Laberinto de los Espíritus, no nos da lo que queremos si no lo que necesita contar. A través de un personaje adecuado y nuevo, Alicia Gris.

Pay Evil unto Evil: A good chunk of the book is dedicated to scenes of Valls being tortured, with his tormentors being portrayed as the good guys. As Leandro points out to Alicia, the book takes place around the time the Franco regime was beginning to shift from being a brutal, totalitarian dictatorship to a more modernized, albeit corrupt Western European nation as part of an effort to improve relations with the United States. Valls- and to a lesser extent Leandro- act as stand-ins for all of the Francoists who participated in atrocities during the war, especially the Perdidos Ninos scheme. As such, he's subjected to the Humiliation Conga of being kidnapped, tortured, mutilated, and starved to the point he literally begs multiple characters to kill him. His ultimate fate is to die of malnutrition hours after being freed, and, since he has no identification and Leandro had earlier faked his death in a car crash, his anonymous corpse is tossed into the same mass grave where he buried political prisoners during his tenure as prison warden. On the other hand, Leandro gets off relatively easy via gunshot to the heart. The new novel Ruiz Zafon appear on November 17". archyworldys.com. August 29, 2016 . Retrieved 26 September 2016. Why does Leandro goad Alicia into killing him? Is it because all of his allies are dead and he's afraid of being the one man to go down for the scheme he concocted with Valls? Because Alicia refuses to ally with him to help build a "New Spain"? Because he feels guilty about setting her up to get killed by Rovira? Or some combination of the above? CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON: How to "Play" a Novel. An Insight into his Books and Mus..." eventbrite.com . Retrieved 26 September 2016.Put on a Bus: Bea's ex-boyfriend, the secondary antagonist of the The Prisoner of Heaven, is completely absent, and the reader never learns why Valls sent him to meet with her in the previous book. Author Appeal: As in past books, Zafon's love of literature is passed on to his positive characters, while evil characters are contemptuous of the written word. Valls is said to have no actual talent, the reason he imprisoned and forced more skilled authors to ghost write books for him. Hendaya, meanwhile, holds to the Franco regime's stance on censorship, and once he learns about the Cemetery of Forgotten books plans to burn it down. Alicia, meanwhile, despite her position in the secret police, is shown to be redeemable through her love of books and dreams of possibly writing herself one day. That’s how engrossed I was by the stories and characters that Zafón has crafted throughout this novel and quartet. These broken souls have gone through many gangrenes of hope, and I genuinely want them to find happiness. Whether they truly find happiness or not, you should read the series and find out for yourself. In short, it’s all of these things, and never more so than in Labyrinth, where Ruiz Zafon brings to a close the twisty story he launched in THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.

Bookends: For the entire Cemetery series. The very first entry, Shadow of the Wind, begins with Juan Sempere taking a young Daniel to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. This one ends with Daniel's adult son, Julian, taking his daughter to the Cemetery. El libro conjuga a la perfección todos los personajes de los anteriores libros con nuevos personajes, algunos de ellos muy buenos, como nuestra protagonista principal Alicia Gris, otros no tan relevantes y algunos que pudieron ser prescindibles.Ensemble Cast: Zafon's biggest since The Shadow of the Wind and the largest in any of his works. Daniel, Fermin, Alicia, Fernandito, and Vargas are all primary protagonists, and even Isabella takes over as narrator for a chunk of the book after Fermin receives her diary. Meanwhile, Valls, Hendaya, and Leandro serve as the primary antagonists. Then there's the barrage of supporting characters in the form of Juan Sempere, Bea, Victoria, Rovira, Fernandito's aunt, and the list goes on...