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The Labyrinth of Spirits

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The Labyrinth of Spirits	comment	The Labyrinth of Spirits (originally El laberinto de los espÃritus) is a 2017 novel by late Spanish author Carlos Ruiz ZafÃ³n, and the conclusion of the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" tetralogy. It picks up immediately after the events of the previous book, The Prisoner of Heaven, and serves to bring to an end plot threads left dangling in it as well as the first two entries on the series, The Labyrinth of Spirits and The Angel's Game.Having learned that his mother was murdered by the evil warden Mauricio Valls after she threatened to expose his forcing imprisoned authors to ghost-write texts for him, young bookseller Daniel Sempere has been trying to locate him, consumed by a desire for revenge. The main action is driven, however, by yet another old memory from his mentor FermÃn's ever-changing past: Alicia Gris, an reluctant operative for the Franocist police, whose life he saved during a bombing raid when she was a child. Coincidentally, Gris has been assigned to track down the missing Valls, who's disappeared after receiving a series of disturbing letters from David Martin, the presumed dead author who was Valls' primary victim and whose life Daniel's mother was trying to save. Alicia soon discovers a much darker story, related to the mysterious banker Ignacio SanchÃs and a variety of sinister characters tangled up in a dark conspiracy that goes back to the final days of the Spanish Civil War.Some short stories, either directly or indirectly set on the same universe, were published in a compillation named The City of Vapor, released after ZafÃ³n's death in 2020.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Sergio Vilajuana is obviously a fictional version of Sergio Vila-SanjuÃ¡n, a real life journalist and writer whom ZafÃ³n was a friend of.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_1439161f	comment	A major plot point of the book is the Heroic BSoD Fermin suffered in the bombing raid where both he and Alicia were injured, and ostensibly he's spent the last fifteen years haunted by the idea he failed to save her life. However, absolutely nothing about her (or her father, whom Fermin saw die) is mentioned in any versions of his past from the first three books of the tetralogy, even though his extended flashback in the third installment would've occurred immediately after losing Alicia.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Valls' and Leandro's plot is based on the NiÃ±os Perdidos, children who were gifted or sold to high-ranking Franco officials in exchange for money or favors.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Since several characters are either corrupt politicians or members of Franco's secret police, a few cases arise. SanchÃs is attempting to get revenge on Valls for murdering entire families during the war to give their children to high-profile infertile couples in the Franco regime, but SanchÃs himself is a Morally Bankrupt Banker who cons elderly people out of their homes. Somewhat subverted in that Sanchis is acting out of love for the innocent Ariadna, whose father was murdered so that she and her sister could be adopted out. Hendaya and Valls. The former is a corrupt cop who thinks nothing of resorting to torture and murder to get what he wants, the latter is a former prison warden who arranged for innocent men to be imprisoned so Valls could force them to ghost write books for him. Valls takes it even further by orchestrating a plot of mass-murder targeting families with children of an adoptable age so that their kids can be gifted or sold to high-ranking politicians.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Although the preface claims that the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series can be read in any order, this book never explains the significance of Julian Carax, whose backstory is featured prominently in The Shadow of the Wind. Readers who aren't already familiar with that book will be utterly baffled as to why Daniel named his son after him, why Carax is horribly disfigured, and why he spends all of his time hanging around Nuria Montfort's grave.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Julian Carax is described as having a full beard in old age, despite his entire face and body being covered in third degree burns. Third degree burns destroy the layer of skin that contains hair follicles, so there's no way he could have facial hair.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: A theme of the book. Invoked by Leandro regarding Spain in the 1960s. The book is set during a period when Franco's regime was loosening its totalitarian control of Spain in an effort to have better relations with its European neighbors as well as the United States. Leandro even admits that ruthless torturers and murderers like Hendaya and Valls will have no place in the coming Spain, whereas conscience-driven individuals like Alicia will be in higher demand. Zig-zagged by Fermin upon the death of Franco. Seeing the world as an inherently corrupt place, Fermin tells Julian that nothing will really change, only the people running the country, who will probably be as corrupt as Franco but in different ways. Invoked by an adult Julian Sempere, who believes that the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona are the last great thing the city will achieve. Somewhat of a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, as the culture of the city did radically change as a result of the rapid urban renewal that occurred to prepare for the event, and the world depicted in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series no longer exists.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: A good chunk of the book is dedicated to scenes of Valls being tortured, with his tormentors being portrayed as the good guys. As Leandro points out to Alicia, the book takes place around the time the Franco regime was beginning to shift from being a brutal, totalitarian dictatorship to a more modernized, albeit corrupt Western European nation as part of an effort to improve relations with the United States. Valls- and to a lesser extent Leandro- act as stand-ins for all of the Francoists who participated in atrocities during the war, especially the Perdidos Ninos scheme. As such, he's subjected to the Humiliation Conga of being kidnapped, tortured, mutilated, and starved to the point he literally begs multiple characters to kill him. His ultimate fate is to die of malnutrition hours after being freed, and, since he has no identification and Leandro had earlier faked his death in a car crash, his anonymous corpse is tossed into the same mass grave where he buried political prisoners during his tenure as prison warden. On the other hand, Leandro gets off relatively easy via gunshot to the heart.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: A few: Was David Martin just a paranoid schizophrenic, or did he really make a deal with a demon named Andreas Corelli? Other characters maintain that Martin was simply mentally ill, but, if that's the case, how did one physically frail man who'd been tortured and malnourished for months overpower and kill Valls' henchmen and escape the country? Why does Leandro goad Alicia into killing him? Is it because all of his allies are dead and he's afraid of being the one man to go down for the scheme he concocted with Valls? Because Alicia refuses to ally with him to help build a "New Spain"? Because he feels guilty about setting her up to get killed by Rovira? Or some combination of the above?
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: There's some degree of subtext between Alicia and Vargas, even although the latter is old enough that his dead daughter was born the same year as Alicia. Some Like Parent, Like Spouse might be on play for Alicia's part, as Vargas has coincidentally the same first name as her father (although not the second).
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_2b7ec38e	comment	The Scrappy: Daniel. Many readers disliked his portrayal as an ineffectual amateur detective and aspiring writer in Shadow of the Wind, and his portrayal in The Prisoner of Heaven only doubled down on his worst traits while making him even more of a non-entity in his own story. Now, he's a weird, creepy, possessive almost rapist who's even less proactive in saving his own family. Zafon seems to be openly welcoming readers to hate him at this point after trying to make him the hero of two previous novels.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Rovira is a serial killer who calls himself The Observer with a room full of crazy dedicated to Alicia. He also rents out his services to the Secret Police to eliminate members of their own force they want eliminated without drawing attention to themselves.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Fermin. Though he's faithful to his wife and loyal to the Sempere family, about 1/3 of everything he says involves women he finds attractive and movie stars he would sleep with given the chance. It's such an issue that Daniel warns him not to discuss movies with his son because he knows what direction the conversation will go.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: After narrating the opening chapters of the book, Daniel ceases to be a central character in the story and fades into the background for most of the novel. The narrative first switches perspectives to Fermin remembering the bombing raid on Barcelona that he and Alicia survived, and then new character Alicia Gris becomes the focal point of the rest of the book until the final fifty pages, when Julian Sempere abruptly becomes the narrator.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Valls, who perishes of malnutrition on public transportation hours after being freed. It provides convenient nourishment for a pair of crows who immediately set to work on his corpse after it's dumped in a mass grave.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Ladislao Bayona and Enrique MarquÃ©s are casually mentioned as two of the other great genre writers of Martin's generation and Bayona is indicated to have been a close friend of his. They're never mentioned again and no further detail is given about their lives or fates.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: The first book in the series is an average-length mystery novel about a boy uncovering a doomed love triangle in his quest to learn more about a missing author. A few people die along the way, but no more so than an average detective novel. This book is over 800 pages long and has at least three primary characters with a cast of dozens of supporting characters and numerous intersecting plotlines involving multiple murder conspiracies, a shadow war within the Francoist secret police, and a body count (and attendant kills) worthy of a slasher movie.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: For this book and the entire Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. Alicia kills everyone involved in the child trafficking plot and sends evidence of it to a prominent Spanish journalist, who exposes the government for its complicity. She gets to go to America and spends the rest of her life traveling the country, but dies in her early sixties of a terminal disease. Ariadna and Victoria Mataix finally reunite, but their loved ones have all been murdered, and rather than live with the memories of the sexual and psychological abuse they survived, they opt to commit suicide together. The Sempere family survives a possible attempt on their lives and Daniel sees justice done to the man who killed his mother, but his all-consuming hatred for Valls has deteriorated his relationship with his family. Even though he and Bea agree to have another child, the marriage remains strained, and rather than grow up to become the successful novelist the character dreamed of being in the previous two books, he instead ages into a bitter, neurotic man obsessed with his dead mother's memory. Julian Sempere finally gets to meet his namesake, Julian Carax, who helps him write his family's story, but Carax himself is a broken shell of a man who's stopped writing again after only publishing one new novel. He now spends most of his time hanging around Nuria Montfort's grave out of guilt for his role in her death, and eventually dies of a heart attack there. In the final scenes, an adult Julian Sempere visits Fermin, whom it's implied is close to death, and the pair ruminate that while the 1992 Barcelona Olympics are a high-water mark for the city, the radical change to its culture as a result of the event means the place they loved no longer exists.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: After having been one of the main characters for the first half of the book, Vargas is unceremoniously murdered by a minor character who's only been revealed to be a villain a few scenes earlier, and who himself dies within pages.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Quite a bit, for a mass-marketed mystery novel. Morgado is horribly disfigured to the point he has to wear a prosthetic mask to cover half of his face. It Gets Worse when Hendaya tortures him by blowing out both of his kneecaps at point-blank range before shooting him in the head. At the outset of the story, Valls' wife has been dying for years of some sort of degenerative illness implied to be multiple sclerosis or possibly early-onset Parkinson's Disease, which has left her bedridden and gruesomely deteriorating. By the time Ariadna finds her, she's little more than a breathing skeleton. The narration implies that it's a mercy when Ariadna suffocates her. Alicia has a gruesome wound as the result of surviving the war, which is described as a thick black mass of veins and lesions covering her entire hip. The debilitating pain it causes her is a major plot point, and Rovira fixates on it while torturing her after she finds his shrine to her. After she's captured, Alicia escapes Rovira by shooting him in the face at point-blank-range, blowing off a chunk of it but leaving him alive for a while before she finally kills him by shooting him in the torso. Alicia finally kills Hendaya by jamming a pen through his eye into his brain and pushing him off a ledge. She later retrieves her pen by yanking it out of the pulped-up mess of his head. A major focus of the scenes involving Valls, who's being slowly tortured to death for his role in mass-murdering families so their children could be "gifted" to high ranking politicians. His hand is pulverized and allowed to begin rotting before gangrene sets in, at which point his jailers finally "save" him by performing a gruesome amputation without anesthetic that concludes with them soaking the stump in hot tar. From there, Valls spends much of the book being made to wallow in his own filth while progressively starving to death as a result of the poor-quality food and rancid water he's being fed by his captors. By the end of the book, Valls' physical state has become so inhuman that he begins trying to negotiate his own execution.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Leandro, a kindly, avuncular figure who treats his proteges as his children, and who in contrast to his more brutal colleagues performs his interrogations over tea in a luxury hotel (albeit with a low dose of heroin to loosen his subjects' lips). None of that prevents him from having had dozens of families murdered so their children could be sold to Franco sympathizers, or orchestrating a series of further murders to help cover up his past crimes.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Hendaya to Leandro. In classic fashion, Hendaya serves as the more aggressive, physically threatening muscle, while Leandro puts on the front of a calm, trustworthy, avuncular figure.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: In-universe for comedic effect. FermÃn claims the inventor of the submarine was a guy named Isaac Monturiol, which effectively conflates two real life developers of Spanish submarines, Isaac Peral and Narciso Monturiol.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Probably bi rather than lesbian, but still. Alicia, whom we know to be at least a bit messed up, fantasizes with forcing herself on Bea.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Both Mauricio Valls and Leandro are described as having a scholarly, bookish appearance due to their glasses. Both men orchestrated the mass murders of dozens of families so their children could be sold to high-ranking government officials, and Valls spent a large portion of his life as the warden of a political prison where he sadistically tortured inmates to vent his own frustrations at not having been given more power in the Franco regime.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: After learning that his wife was kidnapped from her family as a child and both of her parents were killed by the State so she could be sold to Franco supports, SanchÃs pumps the breaks on his evil activities and dedicates all his time and money into helping her get justice.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: As in previous books,FermÃn is a eccentric Motor Mouth prone to long, rambling pontifications on his religious and political beliefs, women he finds sexually attractive, drink recipes, or food he wants to eat. He's also a trained ex-spy who slips back into professional mode when the going gets tough.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: As in past books, Zafon's love of literature is passed on to his positive characters, while evil characters are contemptuous of the written word. Valls is said to have no actual talent, the reason he imprisoned and forced more skilled authors to ghost write books for him. Hendaya, meanwhile, holds to the Franco regime's stance on censorship, and once he learns about the Cemetery of Forgotten books plans to burn it down. Alicia, meanwhile, despite her position in the secret police, is shown to be redeemable through her love of books and dreams of possibly writing herself one day.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Juan Manuel Vargas' first name is said exactly once in 805 pages. The rest of the time, he's either Vargas or Captain Vargas.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Alicia discovers that Rovira has been keeping a shrine to her in the back of an abandoned mannequin factory in Barcelona, including photos of her dating back to her graduation from the police force, menus from restaurants she's eaten at, and even her undergarments.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: SanchÃs is a morally bankrupt banker who cons old people out of money, but after falling in love with Victoria, he throws all of his time and money into helping her get justice for her and her family.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Rodrigo Hendaya, the stylish Francoist inspector. His first name evokes El Cid Campeador, a historical figure Francoists loved to glorify (and subject to heavy revisionism in the process), while his surname references the Meeting at Hendaye between Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: What ultimately happens to Leandro. Once all of his allies are dead and Alicia refuses to help him cover up any more of his crimes, he goads her into shooting him.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: How Ariadna Mataix kills Mrs. Valls for being complicit in her sister's abduction. By this point, Mrs. Valls has been slowly dying of a degenerative disease for so long it's almost a mercy killing.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Bea's ex-boyfriend, the secondary antagonist of the The Prisoner of Heaven, is completely absent, and the reader never learns why Valls sent him to meet with her in the previous book.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Zig-zagged. Ignacio SanchÃs and Victoria Ubach seem to be half-siblings when it is implied SanchÃs is Miguel Ã�ngel Ubach's bastard son, but it then turns out that Victoria is actually Ariadna Mataix.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: VÃctor Mataix is said to have been among David MartÃn's closest friends (along with another character, Alfons BrÃ³sel, whom we never meet) and one of the other great niche writers of his time, and to have reunited with MartÃn in prison. Neither character appears or is even mentioned in either of the previous two books, both of which explore MartÃn's life in detail and one of which is an objective retelling of his prison time. Another entirely new character, Sergio Vilajuana, turns out to have been a close friend of the Sempere family who also knew Mataix and MartÃn. Juan Antonio Gris, Alicia's father, turns out to have been another close friend of Mr. Sempere and inhabitant of his neighborhood that had been never mentioned. Somewhat justified in that he died in the war prior to the events of the first book. Zig-zagged in that he was also Fermin's friend, Fermine saw him die, and the whole reason Fermin even came back to Barcelona was to notify his wife and Alicia of his death, but Fermin has never mentioned or thought about him once in three books. A major plot point of the book is the Heroic BSoD Fermin suffered in the bombing raid where both he and Alicia were injured, and ostensibly he's spent the last fifteen years haunted by the idea he failed to save her life. However, absolutely nothing about her (or her father, whom Fermin saw die) is mentioned in any versions of his past from the first three books of the tetralogy, even though his extended flashback in the third installment would've occurred immediately after losing Alicia.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_786bf97f	comment	Invoked by an adult Julian Sempere, who believes that the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona are the last great thing the city will achieve. Somewhat of a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, as the culture of the city did radically change as a result of the rapid urban renewal that occurred to prepare for the event, and the world depicted in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series no longer exists.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_7b80226d	comment	Good Counterpart: ValentÃn Morgado seems to be this to Vicent Carmona, as they serve SanchÃs and Valls respectively, but it turns out SanchÃs is not fully clean either.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_7de3aec2	comment	What Does She See in Him?: Fermin invokes this to Daniel regarding Bea. As the book goes on and Daniel becomes more bitter, neurotic, and withdrawn, Fermin points out that he's becoming someone unworthy of her affection. Alicia has similar thoughts while fantasizing about Bea, although she also contemplates life with Daniel herself.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: It's never 100% clear if Leandro is telling Alicia the truth when he claims he hired Rovira strictly to tail her, or if Rovira was working on Leandro's orders when he tried to kill her. On the one hand, Leandro does call Rovira to ask if Alicia is dead; on the other hand, Leandro is shown to generally use more low-profile methods to kill "inconvenient" people, such as Ariadna's attempted poisoning and Lomana's murder, both of which are carried out by professional functionaries and not total psychos like Rovira. His Suicide by Cop at Alicia's hands likewise can be interpreted either as a show of remorse for actual guilt, or simply a way to hasten his death rather than be exposed for his past crimes.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Valls' entire plot in the book. He's shot, tortured, mutilated, and starved, and spends much of the latter half of the book wallowing in his own excrement. He's endured so much that by the time Daniel finally finds him, he considers him already dead and refuses to kill him. As a final insult, after he dies of malnutrition hours after being freed, his anonymous corpse is thrown into a mass grave where birds peck out his eyes.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: David Martin. Early on it's confirmed that he died at some point between The Angel's Game and this book, but his imprisonment and torture are one of several factors motivating the revenge plot against Valls. Isabella Sempere, who's been dead since before the first entry in the series, gets to narrate a portion of the book from beyond the grave via a diary that pops up in the first 1/4 and is later read in its entirety by Daniel and Fermin. Ricardo Lomana, Alicia's missing former mentor and sexual harasser, turns out to have been murdered before the events of the book. The shadow of Francisco Javier Fumero still hangs over the story, as both Lomana and Hendaya are revealed to be his former apprentices. Fumero makes a brief cameo in a flashback near the beginning of the book, attempting to arrest Fermin upon his return to Barcelona during the war.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: While Zafon poked some gentle fun at Daniel in the previous book, he doubles down hard here in depicting him in line with how readers had grown to see the character: as an immature, inept manchild who relies on the older people in his life to get him out of trouble. Notably, he's verbally abusive to his wife, contemplates an affair, tells Fermin he'd rather avenge his mother's death than have a happy life with his family, and in one scene attempts to rape Bea. We also learn that he and Bea's "romantic" life consists of him getting her drunk on cheap wine and making her roleplay a model walking the runway, with the implication that it's a one-sided fetish of Daniel's as opposed to a mutually-enjoyable couple's activity.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Alicia is a sultry female detective who often dresses all in black and wears intentionally provocative bright-red lipstick.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: In his first appearance, Hendaya is likened in manner and appearance to a Hollywood movie star. Once he starts talking about hooking up jumper cables to guys' balls, it becomes apparent what his real personality is.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Leandro Montalvo and Mauricio Valls, who during the war orchestrated a campaign of mass-murder, killing entire families in order to "gift" their children to high-ranking Franco supporters.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: Near the end of the book, multiple chapters are dedicated to Leandro interrogating Victoria Ubach/Ariadna Mataix, which serves the purpose of conclusively outlining the book's numerous convoluted subplots and intersecting conspiracies. Some of the material covered was even explained just a few chapters before, but gets repeated so the reader understands the entire scope of the book's multiple, decades-spanning plot threads.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Fernandito starts the book as an idiot manchild who's spray painted his own name on a U.S. army helmet to fulfill his fantasies of being a Hollywood-style war hero. By the end of the book, he's tricked Hendaya into releasing him from police custody, successfully ditches the security detail sent to follow him, tracks Rovira to his lair after he kills Vargas and shoots him in the face, leaving him incapacitated for his later confrontation with Alicia, and succeeds in smuggling the evidence against Valls out of Alicia's place and getting it to Fermin. Other characters even remark on the rapid change in his character once the stakes are increased.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Hendaya's fate. While stalking Alicia through the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, she ambushes him with the antique pen Isaac gifted to her and jams it through his eye into his brain. He's still alive and convulsing when she pushes him off a ledge to his death, adding a further element of squick when she goes back downstairs to yank her pen out of his pulverized skull.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Valls by the end of the book. Over the course of the story, he's shot, has his hand first mutilated and then amputated, contracts gangrene and blood poisoning, and is slowly being starved to death by his captors. By the time Hendaya finds him, Valls is so far gone that he agrees to provide the police information in exchange not for freedom but for death. Still weeks later when Daniel finds him, most of his teeth are gone, his gums are bleeding from malnutrition and Daniel likes him to a living sack of bones. When Valls realizes Daniel is holding a gun he gets excited at the prospect of death and enters a state of panic when he realizes Daniel has decided not to kill him.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Rovira's entire motivation. Working for the secret police is just a convenient cover to allow him to indulge in his hobby of stalking, murder, and sexual assault, all built around a rich and disturbing fantasy life in which he's an omnipotent force called The Observer.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_aebe18ab	type	Pet Rat
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_aebe18ab	comment	Pet Rat: Rovira to Leandro. The former is directly on the latter's payroll as opposed to being an official agent of the secret police, so that he can commit even more brutal extrajudicial violence than even Franco's already notoriously corrupt agents will allow.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Valls considers his circumstances to be this. At two points he tries to convince people to kill him rather than free him.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Alicia has some Ship Tease with Vargas, Daniel, and Fernandito, but also imagines herself forcefully kissing Bea, and ruminates on her beauty and desirability often throughout the novel.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_c438e29f	type	ItGetsWorse
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_c438e29f	comment	Morgado is horribly disfigured to the point he has to wear a prosthetic mask to cover half of his face. It Gets Worse when Hendaya tortures him by blowing out both of his kneecaps at point-blank range before shooting him in the head.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Subverted. Daniel's father had gone unnamed for all the three previous books, but here he's revealed to be named Juan. Played straight with the elderly jailer keeping watch over Valls. The one part of the book told from his point of view tells us that the name everyone else keep calling him is wrong, but that he's happy with that since he's afraid of them and just doing this for money. He gives Daniel a completely different name later with no indication that's his true identity either.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: As part of working himself up to murder Valls, Daniel attempts to rape his wife. Of course, Bea being Bea, she slaps the crap out of him instead.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Leandro, who immediately figures out who took Valls and why, and sets about a complex web of manipulations in an effort to get all of his enemies to kill one another.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_d959d421	type	Rotating Protagonist
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_d959d421	comment	Rotating Protagonist: The book begins from Daniel's POV and then periodically switches heroes, with Fermin, Alicia, Vargas, Isabella Sempere and finally Julian Sempere sharing duties across their various storylines.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The response of Valls' ambiguously named, elderly jailer when Daniel breaks into the prison. In the one scene told from his point of view he makes it clear he's only taken the assignment for much-needed retirement money and is the one person involved in the revenge/coverup with no personal or political connections. Once it becomes clear all of his paymasters are dead, he's more than happy to walk away and let things play themselves out.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Alicia's very reputation in the secret police, and the reason she's so highly valued as an asset. Before the book is over, she's disfigured an attempted rapist, shot and killed multiple guys, and killed a man by jamming a pen through his eye and pushing him off a ledge. To a lesser extent Ariadna, who facilitates the kidnapping and torture of Valls, then escapes her would-be murderer by jamming a hypodermic needle full of poison into his throat.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_dbab18ef	type	Morally Bankrupt Banker
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_dbab18ef	comment	Morally Bankrupt Banker: Miguel Ã�ngel Ubach, Enrique Sarmiento, and Ignacio SanchÃs. Subverted by SanchÃs' Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_dd608032	type	Hell Hotel
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_dd608032	comment	Hell Hotel: The hotel where Alicia is living at the beginning of the book. In one of Zafon's trademark casual insertions of the supernatural into an otherwise grounded book, it's implied several of the tenants are ghosts. Even the desk clerk with whom Alicia is friends may be dead.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_de86b894	type	Continuity Drift
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_de86b894	comment	Continuity Drift: FermÃn's past is revisited and rewritten for a second time in the tetralogy. Now, he's haunted by what he thinks is his failure to have saved Alicia during a bombing raid, with the revelation that she survived being a major plot point. However, she's never mentioned in any of the previous books, and the bombing raid would've happened immediately prior to FermÃn's appearance in The Prisoner of Heaven. Near the beginning of the book, FermÃn worries about his ability to use a rifle because he's never fired a gun before. However, in The Shadow of the Wind, we learn he was recruited into spy work out of the army, where one of the basic skills is learning how to fire a weapon.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: Near the end of the previous book, Daniel comments that his father is dying. At the start of this book he's perfectly fine and lives for several more years beyond the events of Prisoner of Heaven.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: It's astonishing the number of men who are immediately attracted by Alicia, which she capitalizes on.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: Alicia's intended fate, depending on what version of Leandro's story we're meant to accept. If Rovira really was meant to kill her, it was because of her desire to leave the police force, which would've made her a potential liability because of her anti-Francoist leanings.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_ec212e4d	comment	Ensemble Cast: Zafon's biggest since The Shadow of the Wind and the largest in any of his works. Daniel, Fermin, Alicia, Fernandito, and Vargas are all primary protagonists, and even Isabella takes over as narrator for a chunk of the book after Fermin receives her diary. Meanwhile, Valls, Hendaya, and Leandro serve as the primary antagonists. Then there's the barrage of supporting characters in the form of Juan Sempere, Bea, Victoria, Rovira, Fernandito's aunt, and the list goes on...
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_efdc0552	comment	Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: The reader knows from his first appearance that Hendaya is a psycho cop, and it comes as no surprise when Smug Snake Leandro turns out to be corrupt. However, Rovira seems like yet another inept tail like Fernandito, so that it comes as a surprise when he's revealed to be a serial killer called The Observer hired to help Leandro eliminate witnesses.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: A major theme of the book. Moreso than the previous entries in the series, this book examines the legacy of the Spanish Civil War and its lingering impact on the city of Barcelona, with every major character other than Daniel, Bea, Hendaya, and Fernandito being survivors of the conflict. One of the first major set pieces is a bombing raid by Francoist forces that intentionally targets civilians, and both Fermin and Alicia are physically and mentally scarred by having survived it. Meanwhile, Valls and Leandro's campaign of mass-murder targeting families with "desirable" children is intended to profit from Franco's victory in the war. The book takes place at a time when Franco's totalitarian hold over Spain had begun to slip due to his regime's desire to improve relations with the United States and Western Europe, and the various reckonings that happen throughout the book reflect the country's reassessment of the war.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Alicia Gris just wants to get out of the Secret Police and live a quiet life away from the machinations of the Francoist government. On her final assignment, she uncovers a massive government conspiracy that itself uncovers a shadow war in the Franco government that itself uncovers a murder plot. By the end of the book, she's personally killed most of the people involved. The last we see of her she's boarding a cruise ship for America. In the final portion of the book, Fermin confirms to Julian Sempere she died peacefully in America after thirty years of traveling the country.
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The Labyrinth of Spirits / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: The fate of the Mataix sisters, who after finally being reunited agree they don't want to live with the memories of their parents' murders and the subsequent sexual abuse they suffered. Alicia finds them together in bed after peacefully overdosing on morphine.
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