![]() ![]() They move into a house that stands out for its troubled history, and Max meets Roland, who likes to dive around a shipwreck with its own grisly story. Max Carver’s family relocates to the oceanside to avoid the worst of the Second World War. Carlos Ruiz Zafón tries to create characters for the reader to care about, but the central conflict and antagonist are so nebulous and ill-defined that the story ultimately languishes in the liminal space between sinister childhood mystery and cautious fairy tale. The Prince of Mist suffers from being, ultimately, a story without a heart. Blair’s review is spot-on when she says “the story begins promisingly” but then “the book soon begins to get quite silly and more and more plot holes and unanswered questions pop up”. ![]() ![]() I saw this on a library shelf and fell prey to their assertion that, having read The Shadow of the Wind, I should read this too. ![]()
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