A review by bookishobserver
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

slow-paced

2.0

This book was so oddly written. A few things didn’t click into place for me, including the lack of quotation marks or anything to distinguish the change of character perspective. Sometimes, that even includes line breaks, so one sentence ends with character A talking, but instead of a new line, or any quotation marks, or anything, it’s the next sentence but someone else is talking. It was so frustrating, but I got past it, or through it, I guess. By the time the random N word got thrown out there I was already far enough into the book that I was committed to seeing it through.

I was interested in the basic premise: a female journalist and her photographer stumble onto a story. She’s engaged to marry a possibly complicit soldier and the photographer is in love with the journalist. But then I also got wild pedophilia and incest so that was a surprise lol. I wanted to know the resolution of the main plot and it was all so interconnected it was hard to only focus on that one thing. I’m not mad I read this, but I can’t say I know a single person I would recommend it to.