A review by schnauzermum
Violeta by Isabel Allende

3.0

Covering 100 years in just over 300 pages is a difficult job and the result is a breathless canter through the history of a South American country that may - or may not - be Chile. There is no space in which to develop the characters and so they all seem rather two-dimensional. While Allende is good on age, I was disappointed with the book as I’d loved reading The House of the Spirits earlier this year.