Zafron, Carlos Ruiz
Marina, 326 pgs. Little Brown and
Company, 2013. $19.00 Content: Language: PG-13 (12 swears); Mature
Content: PG; Violence: PG-13.
Oscar Drai
is a lonely boarding school student who wanders the streets of Barcelona. He comes across a house that seems haunted,
but he quickly falls in love with the two inhabitants-German (a famous artist)
and his daughter, Marina. Marina takes
Oscar to the cemetery where she has been watching a woman’s weekly visit to an
unmarked grave with a black butterfly on the gravestone. As Marina and Oscar try to uncover the
mysterious woman’s story they are drawn into a dark and ghostly unsolved
mystery.
Zafron is a magical author and
his Gothic story is spooky because it feels like it could be real. I enjoyed this adventure and loved the
characters, but I think young adults would get discouraged and quit
reading. There are too many sides
stories that have to be pieced together to make the overall mystery and it leaves
the book feeling disjointed. As much as
I enjoyed this I don’t think there would be too many kids who would get into
it. The violence is grotesque including
mutilation.
MS, HS-OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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