Like many other reviewers of this title, The Shadow of the Wind is one of my all-time favorite Gothic tales. I read it and was immediately hooked on CRZ and couldn't wait for future stories.

Much like The Angel's Game which came out a few years ago, The Prisoner of Heaven continues to expand the tangential stories surrounding the characters and events from Shadow/Angel. It's a bit like Kieslowski's film trilogy, Three Colors. Each story is distinct and stands independently, but when combined you can better see the inter-relatedness and experience "ah-ha!" moments of understanding how one character or event impacts others over space and time.

My only problem with this literary model is that it has been years; many, many years, since I read Angel and Shadow and I would have preferred to have those stories a bit fresher in my mind while reading Prisoner (because I'm one of those folks who likes to pull all the parts together for the chin-rubbing "ah-ha!" moment).