Frequently heard my opinion about Marina was such that it is a book for young people. So I did not know until the end, what I expect from this novel. But how quickly realized this is another item Zafón written on the same schedule. One might say that such writing is boring boilerplate, and indeed this often happens. Even with Dan Brown. Where everything is so predictable that it does not even need to read the next page. With Zafón, however, is quite different. Here only a "skeleton" of his next novel is the same. The rest is shrouded in mystery waiting to be discovered. Once again, the main protagonist of the novel is a young boy Zafón. Together with a friend is trying to solve the dark mystery of the past. And the fun begins in the detectives and the search for traces of the past. Anyone who knows Zafón knows that the same "skeleton" had both the Shadow of the Wind and angel game. Novels that were written many years after Marina. Well, once again, this Barcelona. Dark and shrouded in mystery. In Marina Barcelona is 80s Twentieth century. But I still some times I have been fooled. Climate, which Zafón introduced in this novel recalls a much older city of Barcelona. As we know it from the wind shadow and Games angel. And sometimes I was sure that the action takes place in the early twentieth century. Old, forgotten cemetery, palace, ruins of the theater ... It's hard to believe that they can be almost our contemporary times. We can say that too much magic here. But of course this is one of the many advantages of this book. As for the dark mysteries of specialty Zafón ... This time we learn about the native of Frankenstein. Then prepare the announcement of this book. And indeed it is difficult to disagree. Because that's the story like a true horror movie characters are caught up the story. The fate of Michael Kolvenika, a riddle that must be solved, and Marina Oscar-main characters in the novel, is really addictive. This time Zafón not let the reader get lost in the tangle of threads. Everything was easy and interesting to read. But for me, this story was relegated to the side track. In my eyes, definitely the number one was the story of Oscar and Marina. Zafón is an expert in describing the unhappy love. How was it this time? A little differently. The striking to me is that the words "I love you" fell only at the end of the book. These were probably the last words uttered by a dying Marina. And the fact that she died there should be no mystery to anyone, because I probably just me with this delay I reach for such books as Marina. So what he described earlier Zafón? Friendship. However, in such a way that it was known that it is behind something much deeper. Mutual, but impossible to meet the love of Oscar was a beacon and Marina. It pointed the way to dreams. And let Marina have only friend in the last moments of life. Friend, as previously dreamed of being plunged in solitude. The figure of the title character makes me very captivated. And especially the one on how to behave, knowing death is coming. I've often had doubts whether the end Zafón books are good. But not this time. Almost at the end of the book I found, as a fragment which is certainly among the favorites. Talking about how Oscar is one of the pieces of the novel written by a dying Marina. Zafón thought at that moment thinking of a young girl full of dreams. Conscious coming to an end. After all, conscious that some of them are satisfied and grateful for this fate. Is Marina is a book for young people? I would not classify it as. Probably only on condition that not every adult reader likes the book with the elements rather fantastic. However, the novel raises many important problems, so quietly it can reach everyone on the more mature customer. Sam Zafón writes in the foreword of the book that wanted to create a novel that he would gladly read as a kid, dwudziestotrzylatek, forties, or old eighties. I think that we should follow.
