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Violeta by Isabel Allende

16 reviews

megshrews's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death and Drug use

albaface's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Addiction, and Suicide

Moderate: Violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia

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

indigopuzzle's review

dark informative fast-paced

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

3.5

Great read for first 2/3 , faded and just history lesson in last part

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual violence, Torture, and War

leahkarge's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Abortion, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Body shaming, Classism, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, Bullying, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Self harm, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Addiction, Gaslighting, Genocide, Rape, Toxic relationship, War, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

literarypenguin's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.0

Violeta tells the story of Violeta, a Chilean woman who has lived a memorable and fulfilled 100 years of life. She recounts her life to a young man named Camillo who you later learn who he is and his importance to Violeta later on in the book. The tales she tells are ones of war, passion, loss, and rebirth. 

I adored the plot of the book, how a woman was retelling her life and all the hardship and triumphs she went through. How she became her own independent woman and escaped an abusive marriage to raise two children. How she handled her own money, had passionate affairs, and helped take care of an extended family. I loved how Violeta acknowledged her mistakes that she made and didn't try to excuse her actions just accepted them and moved on. Her love for her family and her romances were interesting to read about. 

I enjoyed reading about Chile and all of the history and culture that this land holds. How it has been through so many wars and revolutions in its lifetime, how the government mistreated and cruelly mislead it's people at some points. The only thing that took me out of the story was Violeta as the narrator, it didn't read to me like she was emotional about certain things or moments and just felt like any other narrator. Not a person who was retelling her amazing life she lived. If that little thing was changed then I could have rated the book higher and enjoyed my time with it more. 

Despite the narration issue, I had a good time with this book and is a must read for fans of historical fiction!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: War and Sexual violence

Minor: Abortion

rubl_b's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: War, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual content, Suicide, and Death

Minor: Sexual violence

giuliana_ferrari's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, War, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, and Alcoholism

solenekeleroux's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Suicide, Police brutality, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual violence

sofipitch's review

reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

This book holds a lot of similarities to The House of the Spirits, and a lot of Allende's other books tbh. She doesn't name the country the MC is in but it is very clearly Chile, so we get the history of Childe in the 20th century from a european descendended once wealthy family. The book even suggests that Violeta is related to the family from Allende's first book. But the characters aren't well developed, the story isn't as interesting, it's overall a mediocre book from an author who I know has written better and more interesting works. Additionally while I could tolerate the occasional socially unconcious phrase or word or sentiment in her older works, in a book published in 2022 I feel like Allende should know better, or that at least her editor or publisher would have said something, since Allende is considered to be liberal and willing to learn/update her beliefs (Although maybe not, I read the synopsis of Ines of my soul and went 😬 and put it back)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Addiction, Domestic abuse, and Police brutality

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, War, Violence, and Sexual violence