This was not the Gothic mystery set in 1920s/30s Barcelona that I was hoping for. The plot is so slow & boring, I couldn’t wait to get to the end, but the ending was so confusing that all I’m left with is questions! My best guess is that this book is about the devil driving an already severely mentally ill man, who has dissociative identity disorder & is hallucinating most of the time, to even greater insanity? Which sounds like an intriguing read but it’s poorly executed. The atmospheric writing was the best part of this book for me.

P.S. The author still sucks at writing women.