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.

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. 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. 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. 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. CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON: How to "Play" a Novel. An Insight into his Books and Mus..." eventbrite.com . Retrieved 26 September 2016.

Amid the game-playing with known and unknown stories, Zafón has a serious and angry political intent. The sections of The Labyrinth of the Spirits are named after the parts of the Roman Catholic church’s Latin requiem – Dies Irae, Libera Me, etc – which underlines the suggestion that the novels are a lamentation for Spanish (and especially Catalan) history. Zafón is a fine describer of city sights, vividly depicting both the touristic and obscure parts of Barcelona and Madrid 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. The Alcoholic: Since this is late-50s and early-60s Spain and massive alcohol consumption was just an accepted part of the culture, quite a few characters are functioning alcoholics. Vargas is mindful of his intake after killing his family in a drunk driving accident but still has brandy in his coffee, while Alicia readily admits that she self-medicates for both pain and PTSD with booze and is chugging white wine in virtually every scene she's in. Meanwhile, Fermin travels everywhere with a flask of what's essentially moonshine and drinks champagne for breakfast. And, as we read Zafón’s novel, his characters are reading hundreds more, real and imagined. The quartet’s umbrella title, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, refers to a focal location: a secret labyrinthine library in Barcelona, where cherished and threatened texts are protected, and from which visitors are allowed to take away one title. and metaphorical sanctuary for those fleeing political danger. It is also a place where acquiring a library card is a difficult task, and those who earn one cherish the books they can choose and read, suggesting that Zafón is responding to Spain’s history of banning, burning, hiding, and making books a political weapon.Courtesy of HarperCollins

Alicia is commissioned by the government to find Don Mauricio Valls, culture minister in the Franco administration, who has disappeared mysteriously. Valls is a writer and book collector, whose own secret library includes the rarest works. The solution to the mystery of the politician will in turn resolve the facts about the fictions of Carax, Martín and Mataix, and the later life of Daniel Sempere.

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. In short, it’s all of these things, and never more so than in Labyrinth, where Ruiz Zafon brings to a close the twisty story he launched in THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.

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.

Artistic License – 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. The Power of Love: Sanchís 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. No le he hecho ni le hare justicia a este libro ni a nada del autor jamás, pero en serio denle una oportunidad. No se arrepentirán. Lleno de frases inspiradoras, escenas que te harán llorar y personajes inolvidables, El Laberinto de los Espíritus es su propia historia y a la vez el final que esta saga merece.

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.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. The circle of labyrinth is closed.. and every writer leaves a part of his soul lost forever between his lines; destinies are intertwined and ends intertwine between vengeance and poetic justice؛ sacrifice and eternal friendships; Ricardo Lomana, Alicia's missing former mentor and sexual harasser, turns out to have been murdered before the events of the book.