Up, close and personal

This book, by C. Ruiz Zafon, was an unexpected Xmas gift from my mom. It tells the story of a boy who finds a book of a completely unknown writer hidden in a secret library. He reads it that very same night and, after that, things start to become quite strange for him, as a wide and mostly weird variety of characters begin to move around the book. Almost 600 pages, interesting and easy to read, but no surprise -for me at least- in the storyline. I sort of figured everything out in the first few chapters and was expecting the unexpected until the very end, which, in fact, never happens. I'd give it a 6.5/10.