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1st read:
chills and chills:-) so good written... still don't understand how he does it but Zafon definitely rules:-) every book is a fascinating story of characters enthralling and so close to everyone's heart... you just breathe in every word and page.
This tiny book should be first literary try of Mr Zafon and even though it's many years ago when it saw the first right of the day it's fresh, easy to read and most engaging book. Of course, like any other title by the author, it's stunning.
Characters are very well depicted and described, the story is well-paced and structured, opinions of each person are believable and well the development of whole storyline chilling:-)
It doesn't deserve anything less than 5stars and promises to read the next book.
Read and read:-)

Me ha encantado mucho. La historia y sus personajes son super originales y adoro el trio de amigos. Zafon tiene una forma muy bonita de escribir, mis dieces

3.5 stars.

n  “In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding.”
n

Initial Final Page Thoughts.
Um… so no one thought to ring the police or tell any grown-ups what just happened? We’re just going to look back on it as if it was just a crazy summer mad-cap adventure? Um…

High Points.
Max. I’ve been acquainted with a lot of Maxs recently and I have to say… it’s a good name. Beach houses. Roland. Alicia. Cats in wardrobes. Genuinely creepy. Beautiful writing, seriously this book was cinematic.

“Sunbeams filtered through the water in veils of nebulous light that swayed gently with the motion of the waves and the surface was transformed into an opaque dancing mirror.”

See?!
I took down so many quotes from this book, it was gorgeous. The sea. Statues. Family mysteries. Old film projections. Creepy history. The prince of mist.

Low Points.
I won’t go on about this too much because there are spoilers poised ready to explode like a particularly vicious game of Minesweeper.
But… well, when you finish a book with about fifteen questions (no joke, I have them written down in front of me) that you want to ask so you understand it… well, it’s not good.
There was so much that didn’t get explained and the story was so great and so different and mysterious and intriguing and everything. This book needed a good 150 pages more to really get into the story and do Mr Zafon’s ideas justice.
Because, I’m sorry to say, there were so many gaps in the plot.
Also… I’m 87% sure there would have been a massive investigation into what happened in the last 30 or so pages. I mean… it’s kind of a big deal.
And it wasn’t as if it was subtle.

Hero.
OK Max, you had the right idea in this book. You were extremely aware that you weren’t getting the whole story and you stood up for yourself when you thought you were getting short changed.
We had that in common… I mean, we’ve finished the book now and I still have questions.
Lots of them.
But ignoring that, I really liked you. I liked that you loved films and that you were a great little brother and that you were a bit disgruntled with being third wheel.
I also liked that you didn’t freak out and go catatonic when all the mental stuff happened in the end.
Because that’s what I would have done and the book would have been extremely boring if I had been the heroine.
I also liked that you got out of breath when you rode your bike up the hill.
Because that is me.
So if we were to be friends, and I hope we will be, we could just maybe go for a leisurely walk. Maybe even up a slight incline if we’re feeling a bit adventurous.

Theme Tune.

Death of a Clown by The Kinks.
Not really anything to do with this book but, well, I really hate clowns.
Also, I had no idea what other song I could use for this book.
Also (x2) I love The Kinks.


Scaredy Cat Level.
Off the chart.
I know a lot of people will be like ‘Um, Jo, it’s 200 pages long and it’s about circus performers and sunken ships and beaches… how can you be creeped out by this book?”
Well, my friends, I’ll tell you.
Gather round, grab a brew, pull up a pew and I’ll tell you a story about Jack A Nory.
Um, actually… I won’t.
I don’t mean to mislead you… this story will be why this book really freaked me out.
n  STORY TIMEn (which, when I’ve reached my eventual point, may contain a smidgeon of a spoiler)
For as long as I can remember I’ve had an irrational fear of ships… big ships. Especially when they’re out of water (You should see me when I watch the Titanic…:-|).
Coming from a city and avoiding the Manchester Ship Canal like the plague, my fear was manageable. I could quite happily avoid seeing them.
That was until I went to university.
You may or may not know that I went studied in Bangor, North Wales. It’s a lovely university in a ‘city’ (because it has a cathedral and a university… that’s it) that is famous for having the second longest pier in Wales and producing Aled Jones.
Yes… n  thatn Aled Jones.
The university is known for famous alumni such as Helen Fielding (also, apparently, Bridget Jones herself) and Danny Boyle (We had the same lecturer… so technically I’m going to win an Oscar… right?).
And it can boast some fantastic honorary fellows such as Richard Attenborough, Rhys Ifans, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Philip Pullman (been in the same room as him twice and yes, fangirled myself out) and… and Carol Vorderman.
It is also known for fantastic degrees in psychology and marine biology due to its location and the close proximity it has to the Menai Straits. (I did English with Film Studies because I like to be different, obviously… also science and I fell out when I was 17.).
But anyway, getting to the point, at least 75% of my closest friends take/took marine biology and a lot of their course is practical.
So they like to dive, in lovely exotic places like Egypt and just off Puffin Island.
And they like to take pictures.
Of huge ships… underwater.
And my Facebook feed is inundated with them when they come back from a dive.
And it’s pretty much my worst nightmare.
Also, on the train journey from Chester to Bangor (I’d say around Flint or Rhyl, if you know the area) there is this mahuuuusive beached ship that you can see from the train. I always ask my friend to tell me when I can look out of the window again but, because she’s sadistic and cruel, she always says ‘Oh… you can look out now’ and I do and BOOM.
There’s a ghost ship in my eye line.
I’m not a fan of big ships.
Or clowns.
But surely I don’t need to explain that do I? I mean… you have eyes right?
So when they’re all swimming around in the hull of a possessed sunken ship with a clown who can seemingly hold his breath longer than Mr Threepwood… yeah.
I wasn’t pleased, I’ll tell you.

Normal people Most people will think that isn’t scary at all… but I’m not normal most people.

Recommended For.
People who love beautiful, atmospheric writing. People who don’t mind a lot of some unanswered questions. People who don’t look at statutes and immediately think “Oh my god, is that going to come alive when I turn my back?”. People who aren’t afraid of boats/clowns/clocks. People who aren’t scared of that Dr Who episode (Blink,is it?) that I haven’t seen but my friend told me about... urgh. People who are quite happy to paddle in the sea as opposed to diving amongst ship wrecks on their jollies.

This book was sent to me as part of a book tour with the brilliant and lovely UK Book Tours.


You can read this review and lots of other exciting things on my blog here.

I've read a few fantasy books in my time. I enjoy the colorful curse words and see some wonderful characters swearing by individual's balls, and though I've never felt the need to do so, if I ever do, Zafón and his pair may be atop that list. That's praise in case you were wondering.

Não poderia ter corrido melhor a minha estreia com os livros de Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
O mundo fantástico da Zafón faz-nos mergulhar numa aura e ambiente de suspense e mistério, com apontamentos de terror à mistura.
Estou ansiosa para começar "O Palácio da Meia Noite" e continuar a leitura desta trilogia

Reseña en el wrap up del canal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dreRM...
Otra relectura mas, aunque esta es la primera vez desde que tengo el goodreads.
Ahora que se acaba de morir Zafon, la lectura me ha parecido mucho mas trágica, porque me daba por pensar en todos los libros que jamas leeremos de el y claro me ha costado.
Este libro es mi preferido es un libro juvenil, estupendo para enganchar a jóvenes lectoras (como me paso a mi), una historia oscura y veraniega entrañable y sorprendente, que nunca envejecerá gracias y a la forma que tiene el autor de describir y de crear tan buenos personajes.
Un libro precioso como todos los de este estupendo escritor.

تعد رواية أمير الضباب للكاتب الأسباني كارلوس زافون هي الأولى في انتاجه الأدبي قبل أن يحظى بشهرته الكبيرة حاليا. وقد كتبها في بداية التسعينات وهي موجهة للقراء في مقتبل العمر. وتلاها بروايتين من نفس النوع تم ترجمتها من الإنجليزية إلى الأسبانية بعد عشر سنوات من نشرها. ينتقل أبطال الرواية الفتى ماكس والفتاة ايليسا أبناء صانع الساعات ماكسميليان كريڤر إلى قرية ساحلية مع أسرتهم هربا من الحرب وهناك يتعرفون على رونالد وهو حفيد تبناه حارس الفنار المسن ڤيكتور كراي. وفي المنزل القديم الذي تقطنه أسرة كريڤر جهاز عرض سينمائي يكشف أسرار أسرة صاحب المنزل السابق وأسرته والتي تتعلق بساحر يدعى قابيل يتجسد في أشكال مختلفة كالقط والمهرج والحوت ويغري ضحاياه بتحقيق أمنية لهم مقابل التضحية بأعز ما يمتلكون - أرواح أبنائهم. تمزج الرواية الخيال بالإثارة وشيء من الرومانسية وبرغم بساطتها وسذاجة بعض أحداثها إلا أنها تمتع القاريء وتدفعه لمواصلة القراءة للوصول إلى آخر صفحة للكشف عن لغز معقد يصعب شرحه.

No sabía que esperar de este libro porque no sabía de lo que trataba ni había leído nunca nada de Ruiz Zafón. Ahora, después de acabarlo, puedo decir que me ha sorprendido mucho y para bien, y que pienso leer todos los libros de este autor.
A pesar de que es un libro corto, presenta muy bien a los personajes, a los que acabas cogiendo cariño (o todo lo contrario).
Está lleno de sorpresas y a pesar de no querer acabarlo no podía parar de leer.
Estoy deseando poder empezar la segunda parte para ver si se resuelven los misterios que en éste han quedado sin resolver.

Ya terminé #ElPrincipeDeLaNiebla de #carlosruizzafón Me ha sorprendido muchísimo! Me ha parecido que tiene escenas muy fuertes, de auténtica película de terror, para tratarse de un libro juvenil.

Sería una maravillosa serie de Netflix

A big change of pace from my nonfiction reading about World War II, The Prince of Mist is a middle grade novel by acclaimed Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I'd read Zafon's The Name of the Wind, a brilliant adult novel blending Gothic horror and magic realism, but I wasn't aware that Zafon actually began his career writing middle grade fantasies. The Prince of Mist was his first book, and it did not disappoint.

The war in Europe plays only a background role in the book, much as it does in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. The Carver family decides to leave their urban home in Spain to escape the war. They move to a small beach town which has more than its share of secrets. Young Max discovers that their new family house was owned by a doctor and his wife, whose son drowned many years before. There is a strange walled garden behind the house, filled with creepy statues of circus performers. There is a shipwreck just off the coast, and a strange old man who runs the town lighthouse. The town clock runs backwards. Strange voices whisper in the house. Max and his sister Alicia soon meet a new friend named Roland, whose parents died in a tragic accident when he was small. Together, the three of them begin to unravel the mystery surrounding the town, which is entwined with an evil force from the past -- an entity known as the Prince of Mist.

If you like quick, creepy reads with mystery and menace, The Prince of Mist is for you. It will keep you turning the pages, and probably leaving your lights on, late into the night.

4.5/5 estrellas.

Woa. No sabía lo que me esperaba en este libro, y agradezco enormemente todo.
Fue agridulce y grandioso.
Me encantó.