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A little dissapointing!
Even though I love the majority of the author's works, I felt like this one definitely fell a little short of my expectations. The characters, as usual, were or diverse backgrounds, however they were not as rich, and their encounters hardly believable, thus they failed to capture my attention. The stories were too vague and left open for interpretation, as a whole the book is a vast gray area between fantasy and reality. The description of the political situation and the guerilla movement was especially tedious. However, the most bothersome part for me was the ambiguity of the time and place of the novel. It is apparent that the story evolves in the late 20th century, somewhere in South America, however, somewhere after the first few chapters I began longing for the usual cast of characters whose struggles and encounters are a lot more realistic and who preferably inhabit the 18th or 19th century.

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Falls Short Of Other Works
This novel definitely follows Allende's form of vast and varied characters, a plot covering an epic length of time, and Dickensian twists and turns. <
>But the main character is not as interesting or complex as Greg Reeves in "The Infinite Plan," and the most areas of the plot simply lack the intense realism of "Plan" and "The House of Spirits." <
>The references to the metaphysical world are devoid of the absolute wonder caused by works such as "Spirits." And worst of all, her prose, despite having Margeret Sayers Peden translating once again, does not have the same poetic ring. <
>There are, however, still moments in the novel that seem to illuminate any perception of life as dark or dull, thus giving relief to the low-effort and sometimes repetitive nature of the rest of the book.

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Not that good!
I love some of Isabel Allende's books, like "Paula", others were really bad like the ones she wrote for kids.
This book is not that good, I was about to drop it. The political part was to long and the story of Eva not very interesting.