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I heard about the movie, and pure by chance I picked up a copy of this book at our railway station. Is it groundbreaking? Not really. Is it original? Not really. Is there anything new? Not really. It was, however, a surprise to finally discover who "Blue" was.
This is a perfect lazy-Sunday-afternoon-feel-good-book, and when you finish it you think: "life's good".

It's a nice enough story, it has some nice ideas, nicely written, this solid police investigation where the witness is a ghost and there's a nest of vampires to deal with. Problem is, I haven't been able to identify myself with a single one of all the characters. In fact, I've already forgotten what the book was all about...

The spoiled and rather selfish young Henry "Monty" Montague, freshly kicked out of Eton, embarks on a Grand Tour of Europe with his sister and sort-of-boyfriend Percy. In Versailles Monty steals a seemingly innocent trinket, but it holds the key to a dark secret... They are being ambushed by highwaymen, captured by pirates, and being hunted by the powerful Bourbon family. Easy to read, but very enjoyable!

The story of a teenage boy growing up in a remote village in Catalan, trying to become a man. It reads like one continuous dream sequence instead of a "proper" novel, and once you start reading, you're hooked!

The story of a teenage boy growing up in a remote village in the Catalan mountains, trying to become a man. It reads more like one continuous dream sequence than a novel, and once you start, you're hooked!

A detective novel from the Golden Age of Crime (between the two World Wars), a time without the internet and mobile phones...

It all starts when young Daniel is brought to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books where he picks up a book by Julián Carax. Wanting to find out more about Carax, he finds himself on a very dangerous road, as the histories of several families unravel and more and more skeletons come out of the closet...