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Violeta by Isabel Allende

29 reviews

j9wan's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

Slow start, then interesting but just not to my taste, I struggled to get through it at times. I learnt a lot about Latin America and specifically Chile, which I hadn't looked into before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Colonisation, War, and Classism

the_clueless_tourist's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

teainthelibrary's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Violence, and Police brutality

annamay1021's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Torture, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Abortion, Death of parent, and War

jnorwood's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Colonisation

nreyno's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, and Grief

Moderate: Abortion

jamieclower's review

dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

 The cover says it all really - “One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One unforgettable history. “ Violeta del Valle was born in Chile in 1920 at the peak of the Spanish ‘flu outbreak. One hundred years later, in the midst of another pandemic, she is dying and recording her story in a letter to her beloved grandson, Camilo. And what a life she led full of highs and lows - riches to rags and back again, marriages and affairs, some good, others bad. She was a woman who refused to be tied down by the social mores of the day, and lived her life large, for better or for worse. She’s got some regrets but she’s mostly unapologetic about the choices she made. Violeta’s story unfolds against some key historical events including the Great Depression, World War II, earthquakes and a military dictatorship rife with human rights abuses. Allende’s storytelling was top-notch as expected, and I had to remind myself a couple of times that I was not listening to a real person telling me their life story. I listened to the audio and the narrator did a fabulous job, which I’m sure enhanced my enjoyment. I was absorbed from beginning to end and flew through it, finding plenty of excuses to keep listening. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, and Police brutality

kryskross's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Police brutality, and Grief

Minor: Terminal illness and Pandemic/Epidemic

chb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infertility, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic