Violeta by Isabel Allende was a selection for my book club this year and it fit several prompts for different challenges perfectly. This was my first book by Allende and I will be reading more works by her in the future for sure. Overall I really liked the way she combines character development and story action. My only real complaint was the ending of the book felt as though she was throwing as many possible social issues into the story as possible rather than sticking to the main plotline that centered around the Chilean political uprising and the general US involvement in Latin American politics. The story is an amazing saga of the family and all it underwent over the course of Violetta's lifetime.
Violeta by Isabel Allende
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
fantastic epic historical novel
This is such a beautiful mix of description and characters. The history of Chile and S America that is revisited in this novel is an astonishing reminder of how much has changed in the world and how often it repeats in a different manner. The only reason I did not give this 5 stars is the last portion felt as though all the faults in the world had to be thrown into the storyline/Violeta’s reflection letter. It just felt a bit contrived at that point whereas the rest of the book had felt authentic without lecturing til then. I am glad I went back and finished this book after having begun earlier in the year
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Challenge Prompts
The Challenge Prompts I will use this for are:
- Library Love #LibraryLoveChallenge Book # 101
- Literary Escapes #LiteraryEscapes Chile
- Virtual Mount TBR #VirtualMountTBR2022 Book #125
- Historic Fiction #histficreadingchallenge Book #13
- Around the Year in 52 Books # 38. A book by a Latin American author
- BooklistQueen #booklistqueenreadingchallenge2022 # 23. A Book Everyone is Talking About
- Beat the Backlist #BTB2022 #30 translated to your native language
- Nerd Daily #NERDREADING2022 #21 a book you never finished
- Pick your Poison #97 a book about a pandemic
- Beyond the Bookends December- Read a family drama
- Book Voyage #bookvoyagechallenge December: Books Spanning Multiple Continents
- Diversify your reading #DYRC22 Dec Historic Fiction
- Lifetime of Reading multi generational
- Uncorked Reader #UncorkedReading2022 #5 hiking
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